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Regimental Serjeant Major W HUGHES

Service Number: 11487
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 March 1919

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY

III. A. 16.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross, Four times Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Croix de Guerre (France). Son of Mrs. T. Hughes, of Hoole, Chester; husband of Maud Hughes, of 37, Carisbrooke Rd., Newport, Isle of Wight.
  • Personal Inscription ON WHOSE SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY
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Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3324
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