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Pilot Officer FRANCIS ALBERT PRESTON

Service Number: 407972
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Australian Air Force

Date of Death

Died 23 August 1943

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BERGEN GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot 2. Row C. Grave 24.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Harold Claude and Hannah Mary Preston, of Henley Beach, South Australia.
  • Personal Inscription FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

BERGEN GENERAL CEMETERY
Noord-Holland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 260
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