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Flying Officer JOHN ANTHONY HUGHES-REES

Service Number: 113942
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 30 April 1943

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MOASCAR WAR CEMETERY

2. A. 6.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Anthony Hughes-Rees, and of Anne Hughes-Rees, of Newport, Pembrokeshire.
  • Personal Inscription "THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND"
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Buried or commemorated at

MOASCAR WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 989
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