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Fusilier SAMUEL PRESTON

Service Number: 3444998
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

1/8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 September 1943

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY

2A. C. 4.

Poland

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Ivy Preston, of Patricroft, Lancashire; husband of Edith Preston, of Patricroft.
  • Personal Inscription KEEP HIM IN THINE ARMS, O LORD; LOVE HIM AS WE LOVED HIM WITH THY LOVE DIVINE
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Buried or commemorated at

KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
Poland
Number of casualties: 529
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