Great War Dundee
This is Dundee's story of those that served in the First World War, and of the people left at home
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Ebenezer Menzie Preston
Military Information
- Date of enlistment: 11.04.1915
- Place of enlistment: Montreal, Canada
- Service no: N/A
- Rank: Lieutenant
- Service Occupation:
- Awards: Distinguished Service Order, Military Medal & Bar & twice Mentioned in Dispatches
- Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry
- Unit/Ship: 87th Battalion
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 26.09.1890
- Place of Birth: Dundee
- Address:
- Occupation: Toolmaker
- Mother:
Elizabeth Gardner Preston
- Father:
Ebenezer Preston, 1354 Parthenais St, Montreal
- Siblings:
James & Ella
- Spouse:
Ellen Isabel Preston
- Children:
Ellen, Stephen, Ian & Constance
- Age at Death: 93
- Date of Death: 12.09.1984
- Place of Death: Veterans Hospital, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue
- Burial Country: Canada
- Cemetery: St. Andrews Round Church Cemetery, Dalhousie Mills, Ontario
More about Ebenezer Menzie Preston
Death notice in the Montreal Gazette, September 14, 1984:
PRESTON, Ebenezer. At the Veteran’s Hospital in Ste.-Anne-de-Bellevue on Wednesday, September 12, 1984, aged ninety-three years, Ebenezer Preston, formerly of Lachine, Quebec. Veteran of World War I, Canadian Grenadier Guards, D.S.O.M & M BAR, beloved husband of the late Ellen Cameron, dear father of Steve Preston of RRI North Lancaster, Ontario, Mrs. Ellen Jowett of RRI North Lancaster, Ontario, Ian Preston of Sherbrooke, Quebec, and Constance (Mrs. Ted Munro) of Vancouver. Survived by one brother James Preston of Terrebonne, Quebec, and one sister Ella MacNab of Montreal, also survived by fourteen grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Funeral Service in St. Andrew’s Church, Dalhousie Mills, interment in St. Andrew’s United Church Cemetery.
Gary Thomson
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