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Major RICHARD WETHERED MORLAND-HUGHES

Service Number: IA/199
Regiment & Unit/Ship

5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 June 1944

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ASSISI WAR CEMETERY

VIII, G, 3.

Italy

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  • Country of Service Indian
  • Awards Member of the Order of the British Empire, Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Morland Cunynghame Hughes, and of Elsie Louise Morland-Hughes, of Dover. His Walter James Morland-Hughes brother also died on service.
  • Personal Inscription HIS BROTHER WALTER, CAPTAIN, 3RD R.G.R., INDIAN ARMY DIED IN INDIA 7-11-1947 AGE 24
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Buried or commemorated at

ASSISI WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 949
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