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Lance Corporal EDWARD JAMES HAWES

Service Number: 6403347
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.

43rd (2/5th Bn. Gloucestershire Regt.) Regt.

Date of Death

Died 25 September 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

UDEN WAR CEMETERY

2. F. 4.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Elsie Hawes; husband of Iris E. Hawes, of Drybrook, Gloucestershire.
  • Personal Inscription "THE DAYS OF HIS YOUTH HAST THOU SHORTENED... SO TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS"

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Buried or commemorated at

UDEN WAR CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 703
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