Service Details
Name:
 PRESTON
Given Name:
 LESLIE AMYAS
Initials:
 L A
Service No:
 572880V
Trade:
 Air Gnr.
Rank:
 Warrant Officer Class I
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 31 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-07-03
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Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #EW199, 6 crew (1 RAF)), shot down while en route to attack the Prahova Oil Refinery at Bucharest, Romania
Additional
Information:
Son of Bertel St. J. Preston and Nora Preston, of Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa. Commemoration stone in Benoni (Rynsoord) Cemetery
Commemoration
Country:
 Romania
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Cemetery:
 BUCHAREST WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Joint grave 1. C. 8.

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