Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Flight Sergeant

Unit:

No. 106 Squadron, Royal Air Force

Awarded on:

June 11th, 1943

Citation:
"Flight Sergeant Preece is an air gunner of proved ability, who has participated in a large number of bombing raids on enemy targets in Europe and the Middle East. Early in his operational career he completed sorties to Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Brest, and later he operated during the Western Desert campaign against Tripoli, Palermo, Naples and Crete. On numerous occasions whilst in the Middle East he has taken part in a very commendable manner in low level machine gun attacks, firing many thousands of rounds of ammunition. In the course of the last two months he has again taken part in raids on Germany."