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Captain CECIL HERBERT SANSOME PRESTON

Service Number: 47157
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 May 1940

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VEURNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

D. 4.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert Sansome Preston, K.C., and Edith Lucy Preston; husband of Alice Dean Preston, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Scholar of New College, Oxford. Member of Lincoln's Inn.
  • Personal Inscription DEARLY LOVED "SILENT, UPON A PEAK IN DARIEN"
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Buried or commemorated at

VEURNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 79
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