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Acting Leading Stoker A F PRESTON

Service Number: SS/111039(CH)
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. "Strongbow."

Date of Death

Died 17 October 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LERWICK NEW CEMETERY

7th Terrace upper side. 21.

United Kingdom

Casualty from H.M.S. Strongbow in Lerwick New Cemetery.

Photographer: Jon Sandison

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Henry and Emma Preston, of Tooting, London.
  • Personal Inscription AT REST
FOR EVERMORE: STORIES OF THE FALLEN
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Buried or commemorated at

LERWICK NEW CEMETERY
Shetland United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 119
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