Daniel Robert PRESTON

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PRESTON, Daniel Robert

Service Number:	5080
Enlisted:	11 January 1917
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	56th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, 29 December 1900
Home Town:	Newtown (NSW), Inner West, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Laborer
Died:	Coronary occlusion due to chronic myocarditis and asthma, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 13 November 1953, aged 52 years
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

11 Jan 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5080, 30th Infantry Battalion
10 May 1917:	Involvement Private, 5080, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: ''
10 May 1917:	Embarked Private, 5080, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Marathon, Sydney
22 Jan 1920:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 56th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Susan WARDS

Daniel Robert Preston joined the army on 12 January 1917 when he was only 16. He was a juvenile offender spending time in the Mittagong Farm Home for Boys from when he was 11. In France he received a severe shrapnel wound to his right leg and was invalided to England. He offended constantly while in the army, even serving time in Wormwood Scrubs Prison in England. He was denied his service medals.

After returning to Australia he continued his criminal behavour and spent his whole life in and out of gaol. He died in Geelong Gaol, Victoria in 1953.

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