Photo: Brian Chandler
In Newcastle (St. John Westgate & Elswick) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In
loving memory of
Gertrude
elder daughter of
R.A. & S.N. Preston
who died Nov.13th 1918, aged 36 years
Also Walter Preston
their youngest son
killed in action in France
23rd July 1918, aged 19 years,
Also Mabel Elizabeth
their daughter
who died April 13th 1933, aged 41 years
Also Robert Alfred Preston
who died July 5th 1935, aged 81 years,
Also Sarah Newton Preston
who died Jan.17th 1922, aged 83 years.
Walter was born on 23rd November 1898, the son of Robert Alfred and Sarah Newton Preston, 111 Brighton Grove, Newcastle upon Tyne.
He enlisted at Newcastle with the 1st/9th Battalion and was formerly TR5/65888, Private, Training Reserve Battalion.
Walter was one of seven British soldiers to be exhumed from Jonchery-Sur-Vesle and re-buried at Courmas British Cemetery, Marne, France (Plot 2, Row B4).
Acknowledgements: Ron Carson.
Walter Preston is remembered in Jesmond on J1.04 and in the D.L.I. Book of Remembrance page 191
