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Gunner WILLIAM HUGHES

Service Number: 170215
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

67th Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 14 December 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

VIII. B. 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Martha Hughes, of 20, Station Lane, Blackheath, nr. Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription A GLORIOUS DEATH IS HIS WHO FOR HIS COUNTRY FALLS HE HATH DONE WHAT HE COULD
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