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Détails victime
Informations personnelles
- PRESTON
- CH
- CHARLES HENRY
- Birmingham
- England
- labourer
- He was a 'home child' and lived in the Middlemore Waifs and Strays Society Home in Birmingham; at the age of ten he was sent to the Colonies, aboard a steamship from Liverpool, arriving in Halifax, May 1907
Données militaires
- 24 November 1914, Saint John, New Brunswick
- 69779
- Private
- 26th Bn. New Brunswick Regiment
- 5th Brigade
- 2nd Canadian Division
- C.E.F.
Décès
- Whilst taking part in a raid on the enemy trenches on the morning of May 1st, 1916, he was severely wounded by a piece of shrapnel from an enemy shell.
- Died of gunshot wounds left temple, in n°3 Can CCS.
- 6 July 1916
- 20
- VIII - C - 4A
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