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Wireman SIDNEY POWELL HUGHES

Service Number: D/MX 71895
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Sultan.

Date of Death

Died 12 August 1945

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JAKARTA WAR CEMETERY

3. B. 15.

Indonesia

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Egerton and Alice Ruth Hughes, of West Derby, Liverpool.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR FREEDOM'S SAKE AND HAS PASSED ON TO ETERNAL GLORY
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Buried or commemorated at

JAKARTA WAR CEMETERY
Indonesia
Number of casualties: 1181
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