Soldiers of the RegimentPrivate John
Robert Preston
Private John Robert Preston, number 241853, 8th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Died of wounds 13 Apr
1918, age 25 and Buried in Pernes Military Cemetery, France. Son of John
and Alice Ann Preston of Hambleton, Poulton-le-Fylde.
Private John Robert Preston enlisted into the 2nd/5th Battalion of the
King’s Own with the number 4456 and became 241853 in 1917. He is shown
as with D Company of the 2nd/5th Battalion in Jan 1917.
Golden Roll of Honour for
Private John Robert Preston, number 241853, 8th Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Lancaster Regiment, Died of wounds 13 Apr 1918, age 25 and Buried
in Pernes Military Cemetery, France. Son of John and Alice Ann Preston
of Hambleton, Poulton-le-Fylde.
Private John Robert Preston enlisted into the 2nd/5th Battalion of the
King’s Own with the number 4456 and became 241853 in 1917. He is shown
as with D Company of the 2nd/5th Battalion in Jan 1917.
Accession Number: KO3114/01
Soldiers of 'D' Company, 2nd/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, Farnborough, 1916
Accession Number: KO3114/02
Unidentified photograph of fifteen photographs of the King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, believed to be 2nd/5th Battalion, and assumed to
contain Private John Robert Preston.
The photograph is marked with the number ‘94’ in the bottom left hand
corner.
Accession Number: KO3114/03
Grave of Private John Robert Preston, number 241853, 8th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Died of wounds 13 Apr 1918, age 25
and Buried in Pernes Military Cemetery, France. Son of John and Alice
Ann Preston of Hambleton, Poulton-le-Fylde.
The photograph is mounted and on the rear is stamped “The British War
Graves Photographic Association”
Accession Number: KO3114/04
Grave of Private John Robert Preston, number 241853, 8th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Died of wounds 13 Apr 1918, age 25
and Buried in Pernes Military Cemetery, France. Son of John and Alice
Ann Preston of Hambleton, Poulton-le-Fylde.
The photograph is mounted in a folder, on the front is ‘British
Association Ypres Salient, Belgium’
Accession Number: KO3114/05
The War Graves of The British Empire, France 10 and 11: Pernes British
Cemetery, Pernes Churchyard, France.
Compiled and Published by order of the Imperial War Graves Commission,
London, 1922.
Accession Number: KO3114/06
Extract from the above book, War Graves of the British Empire
Accession Number: KO3114/06a
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