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Private WILLIAM HENRY PRESTON

Service Number: 3080368
Regiment & Unit/Ship

5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion

Date of Death

Died 14 September 1918

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIGNY-ST. FLOCHEL BRITISH CEMETERY, AVERDOINGT

IV. D. 24.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of the late Thomas and Elizabeth Preston, of Portadown, Co. Armagh, Ireland.
  • Personal Inscription DEARLY LOVED BY HIS SISTERS AND BROTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

LIGNY-ST. FLOCHEL BRITISH CEMETERY, AVERDOINGT
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 678
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