Private 11607 George PRESTON

Private 11607 George Preston{gallery}Pte J H Spencer{/gallery}2nd Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Killed in action in the Battle of Festubert, Richeboury L’Avone, France and Flanders, 16th May 1915, aged 18

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• Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France. Panel 26
  
• Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Albert and Hannah Cooper Preston
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments | Stockingford | Stockingford Council School

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Pte Preston
• Le Touret Memorial
• Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born Jul Qtr 1897 at Ansley, Atherstone
• Attended Stockingford Council School
  
• Lived at Ansley, Nuneaton [1901]
  
• Lived at 62 Haunchwood Road, Stockingford [1911]
• Employed as a brickmaker’s labourer [1911]
  
• Enlisted at Nuneaton. Arrived in France 1 Apr 1915