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Private EDMUND STANLEY PRESTON

Service Number: 274310
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Labour Corps

131st Coy.

Date of Death

Died 29 April 1918

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

IX. A. 57.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edmund and Agnes Preston, of Westgate St., Shouldham, Downham, Norfolk. His brother Frederick George Preston also fell.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY HIS SOUL TO GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 5813
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