Edward/Edwin Swanton, Skibbereen Draper

 

This is a completely different man, and is not the man who was posted missing on the Official List. He is the man who escaped

 

IRA Witness Statement On 3rd July, 1921 Edward Swanton, Draper, Skibbereen, was taken prisoner at Kilderry in the neighbour hood of the town. He was suspected o fco-operating with the enemy and was taken to Battalion Headquarters at Moultrehane where he was detained until after the Truce.

IRA Witness Statement

 

 

 

Eugene Swanton, the ex-soldier