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Serjeant ERIC HUGHES

Service Number: 3649847
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

13th (2/4th Bn. The South Lancashire Regt.) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 August 1944

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

VIA. B. 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Racheal Hughes; husband of Ada Hughes, of Little Horton, Bradford, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription EVER LOVED AND HONOURED BY HIS WIFE ADA AND SONS ERIC AND DAVID

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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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