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Private GEORGE EDWARD PRESTON

Service Number: 53699
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

79th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 28 February 1917

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DOIRAN MILITARY CEMETERY

VI. G. 28.

Greece

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Sarah Ann Preston, of 45, Canon St., Melton Rd., Leicester.
  • Personal Inscription THE LOVE THAT LINGERS O'ER HIS NAME IS MORE THAN FAME
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Buried or commemorated at

DOIRAN MILITARY CEMETERY
Greece
Number of casualties: 1393
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