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Private JOHN WALLACE PRESTON

Service Number: 4925709
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South Staffordshire Regiment

1/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 July 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL

V. A. 18.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Richard and Clara Preston; husband of Evelyn Harriet Preston, of Walsall, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LOVE IS NOT TO DIE. I.H.S.
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Buried or commemorated at

FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 521
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