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Private WILLIAM PRESTON

Service Number: 9509
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Lancashire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 05 February 1915

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ

XXVI. A. 6.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late James Preston and of Margaret A. Preston, of "Woodlea," Copter Green, Blackburn.
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Buried or commemorated at

CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 7661
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