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Notes for Walter PRESTON


Jan-Mar Qtr
Enlisted 1917 1st/9th DLI (78950)
Plot 2, Row B, Grave 4
Private, Durham Light Infantry, 1st/9th Battalion, Service No. 78950
Apprentice Tailor with Angus Wilson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Enlisted, 1917 in 1st/9th D.L. Infantry (No.78950), killed in Action 23rd July, 1918, in France.




Casualty Details
Name: PRESTON, WALTER
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Durham Light Infantry
Unit Text: 1st/9th Battalon.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 23/07/1918
Service No: 78950
Additional information: Son of Robert Alfred and Sarah Newton Preston, of 111, Brighton Grove, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. B. 4.
Cemetery: COURMAS BRITISH CEMETERY

Courmas is a village about 11 kilometres south-west of Reims. From Reims take the D980 towards Chateau-Thierry and Dormons, passing through the village of Pargny les Reims. After about 8 kilometres turn left along the D6, signposted towards Courmas. On entering the village, turn first right into Rue des Hauts Mur (C11) towards Bouilly, then take the second left into Rue du Pont de Pierre, next to the CWGC direction sign. 30 metres on the right is a small parking area. As the unmade road is not suitable for vehicles, from here walk down the unmade road for 700 metres to the Cemetery.
The cemetery was made after the Armistice, by the concentration of graves from the neighbouring battlefields and from COURMAS VILLAGE and COURMAS CHATEAU BRITISH CEMETERIES (small cemeteries made by the 62nd (West Riding) Division after the fighting of the 20th July, 1918). There are now over 200, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over a quarter are unidentified and special memorials are erected to seven British soldiers believed to be buried among them. The cemetery covers an area of 605 square metres and it is enclosed by a stone rubble wall.

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