Personal Number: 228333 Rank: Second Lieutenant Name: Stephen Edward Thomas PRESTON Unit: Irish Guards London Gazette : 20 March 1942 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35493/supplement/1268/data.pdf The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts.:— 7th Mar. 1942:— Stephen Edward Thomas PRESTON (228333). I. G'ds. Lt. The Hon. S. E. T. Preston (228333) (killed in action). London Gazette : 11 January 1945 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36886/supplement/325/data.pdf Mentioned in Despatches I. G'ds. Lt. The Hon. S. E. T. Preston (228333) (killed in action).
Casualty Lieutenant PRESTON, THE HON. STEPHEN EDWARD THOMAS Service Number 228338 Died 30/01/1944 Aged 23 1st Bn. Irish Guards Son of Jenico Edward Joseph Preston, 15th Viscount Gormanston, and of Eileen, Viscountess Gormanston, of Gormanston Castle, Co. Meath, Irish Republic. INSCRIPTION: DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY Buried at ANZIO WAR CEMETERY Location: Italy Cemetery/memorial reference: III, K, 2. See cemetery plan
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