Notes
The Roll lists his address as 62 St Paul's Road. It states he died on 26/5/1915, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private William Robert Preston, service number PO/14161, died on 27/5/1915 serving in the Royal Marine Light Infantry on HMS Princess Irene, and is buried in grave Naval 20.1038 at Gillingham (Woodlands) Cemetery in Kent. The War Graves Roll records that William Robert Preston was born on 2/1/1888 in Norwich, that he died on 27/5/1915, and that his next of kin was his widow Beatrice M Preston of Stackley House near Leicester. His birth was registered in Norwich District in 1888. On the 1911 census he had been serving in the Royal Navy as a Royal Marine, and was single. On the 1901 census he had been living with his parents William and Alice at Tansor's Cottage in Walton near Peterborough. His marriage to Beatrice M Cox was registered in 1915 in Billesdon, Leicestershire. The National Archives register of Naval casualites (ADM 242; Piece 009) records William's date of death as 27/5/1915. It was at 11:14 am on that date that the mine-layer HMS Irene exploded while the mines were being primed on deck; CWGC record the deaths that day of 246 of her crew).