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Pte. Wallace Preston

British Army 9th Battalion West Yorkshire Regt. (Prince of Wales Own)

from:48 Sedgewick Street, Bradford

(d.12th June 1917)

Wallace Preston was born on 22nd March 1891 in Bradford, the son of Mary Elizabeth Inglehearn who later married John William Preston who regarded Wallace as his own son, giving him his surname. In 1911 Wallace was a wool comber operative working for a wool combing company. He joined up on 23rd August 1915, first serving in the Balkans before being sent to Belgium where he died of wounds on 12th June 1917 aged 26. He is buried in Cabin Hill Cemetery, Heuvelland West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.



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