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Major IAN NICHOLAS LELY PRESTON

Service Number: 124444
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

2/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 July 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY

X. G. 8.

Italy

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 1st Bn. Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Douglas James Preston and Mary Vyvian Preston, of Chelsea, London.
  • Personal Inscription "HE IS A PORTION OF THE LOVELINESS WHICH ONCE HE MADE MORE LOVELY". R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1638
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