Petty Officer Airman GORDON BOOTH HUGHES
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Heron
Date of Death
Died 09 November 1945
Age 21 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Vernon and Helen Ross Hughes, of Powell River, British Columbia, Canada.
- Personal Inscription "SLIPPED THE SURLY BONDS OF EARTH... PUT OUT MY HAND AND TOUCHED THE FACE OF GOD"
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