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Lance Corporal JOHN PREECE

Service Number: 4694477
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

"D" Coy., 16th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 October 1943

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NAPLES WAR CEMETERY

III. K. 9.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Thomas Preece and Lucy Ellen Preece, of Maltby, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription WITH TENDER LOVE AND DEEP REGRET WE WHO LOVE HIM NEVER FORGET
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Buried or commemorated at

NAPLES WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1230
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