Second Lieutenant Rupert Girard Sweetland
Royal Welsh Fusiliers (formerly 29th
Bn., Canadian Infantry British Columbia Regiment)
26/01/1917
Born at St Peter Port, Guernsey. Son of the late Walter
K and Alice Sweetland (née Pescott), of 1410,
Sixth Avenue, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
(late of St Peter Port, Guernsey). Served with Royal
Guernsey Engineers 1910-13. Enlisted at Vancouver on
11/11/1914. Brother of Private Ivor Pescott Sweetland,
CEF (Guernsey Roll of Service)
Died of Wounds, aged 23 years
Remembered on:
Island (Bailiwick) Memorial,
St Peter Port, Guernsey
