Corporal Cyril Bertie Preston, 28831
- Batt - 60
- Unit - Machine Gun Corps
- Section -
- Date of Birth - 1894
- Died - 20/09/1918
- Age - 26
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of Arthur Preston and the stepson of Helen Preston. The 1911 census records for Logan Street, Great Bowden, Leics. Arthur Preston, head of the family and married 4 years, a Club Steward, born 1866 in Leicester and his wife Helen, a Club Stewardess, born 1873 in Warwickshire, also Bertie, son, single and a Beer Bottler, born 1894 in Wigston, Leics.
Leicestershire Project Findings
- Conflict - World War I
- Burial Place - L 46, Ramleh War Cemetery
Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore
- Unit - Machine Gun Corps
- Former Unit - King's Royal Rifle Corps
- Cause of death - DIED OF WOUNDS
- Burial Commemoration - Ramleh War Cem., Israel
- Born - Wigston, Leics
- Enlisted - Market Harborough, Leics
- Place of Residence - Church Walk, Little Bowden, Northamptonshire, England
- Memorial - ST. NICHOLAS'S CHYRD. MEM., LITTLE BOWDEN, NORTHANTS
- Memorial - MARKET HARBOROUGH MEM., LEICS
- Memorial - COTTAGE HOSPITAL WAR MEM., MARKET HARBOROUGH, LEICS
