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Private GEORGE PRESTON

Service Number: 12055
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Leicestershire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 August 1916

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEWBOLD VERDON (ST. JAMES) CHURCHYARD

United Kingdom

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Photographer: Darryl Glover

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Tom and Phoebe Preston, of Newbold Verdon.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LAST DYING WORDS WERE THANK GOD I HAVE DONE MY DUTY
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Buried or commemorated at

NEWBOLD VERDON (ST. JAMES) CHURCHYARD
Leicestershire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 4
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