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Gunner RALPH PRESTON

Service Number: 1699292
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

49 Garrison Regt.

Date of Death

Died 26 December 1944

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SCHOONSELHOF CEMETERY

V. C. 69.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Ellen Preston, of Dewsbury, Yorkshire; husband of Jessie Preston, of Dewsbury.
  • Personal Inscription "WE CANNOT, LORD, THY PURPOSE SEE BUT SOME DAY WE SHALL UNDERSTAND." YOUR WIFE
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