P Database

Cambridgeshire Regiment

Compiled with the help of the Commonwealth War Graves and Martin Stiles

This Page is Dedicated To

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Lance Serjeant

Preston, William Charles Harry

Cambridgeshire Regiment

2nd Battalion

Associate Regiment and Unit:-

Unknown

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1944/09/21

Cause of Death:

Japanese PoW lost at sea

Place of Death:

Hofuku Maru - Sunk by planes from American Aircraft Carrier, 80 miles north of Corregidor.

Loved Ones

Son of Sydney and Ethel Preston; husband of Edith Preston, of Garston, Watford, Hertfordshire.

Memorial

Column 57.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

Kranji War Cemetery west of the Singapore-Johore road (Bukit Timah Expressway) on Woodlands Road

Singapore

2 Group from Thailand-Burma Railway

Keeping The Candle Burning

In Memory o f Fred Taylor, Arthur Lane, John Weedon and Reg Rainer
Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

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Honorary Life Member-1tn

Lifetime Honary Member of COFEPOW

Ron.Taylor@roll-of-honour.org.uk