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Sergeant WILLIAM ARTHUR HUGHES

Service Number: 563882
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

144 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 16 August 1940

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

28. E. 12.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Alice Hughes; husband of Evelyn Hughes, of Crumlin, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. "PEACE, PERFECT PEACE"

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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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