He was an artillery gunner who was invalided back to England, from South Africa, in June 1900, and committed suicide on the 8th of September 1900.
"At Bromley, London, on Monday night, a coroner's jury found that Henry Benjamin Swiney, gunner, committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train during temporary insanity. The evidence showed that Swiney was invalided from South Africa and was treated with drink wherever he went, the Coroner remarking that the drink and excitement had brought on delirium tremens. Deceased belonged to the 6th Company Royal Garrison Artillery depot now at Devonport."
His death seems to have been registered at Poplar, and his age at death was 28.
His Queen's South Africa medal was later issued to his mother, Mrs E. E. Swiney, c/o Samuel G. Swiney, of 19, Fairfield Road, Higham Hill, Walthamstow.
Where would he have been interred? And if anyone can come up with the reason he was invalided home, that would be fantastic. It was likely to have been enteric fever, but possibly a wound or injury.
