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Trooper JOSEPH PRESTON

Service Number: 14346508
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

49th Armd. Personnel Carrier Regt.

Date of Death

Died 29 April 1945

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY

2. H. 1A.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Preston; husband of Edna Kathleen Mary Preston, of Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire.
  • Personal Inscription "GOD IS LOVE; AND HE THAT DWELLETH IN LOVE DWELLETH IN GOD, AND GOD IN HIM "I.JOHN IV.16
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Buried or commemorated at

BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY
Niedersachsen Germany
Number of casualties: 2404
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