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Private WALTER ERNEST HUGHES

Service Number: 12519
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 July 1916

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

VIII. B. 42.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Betsy Hughes, of 5, Spring Gardens, Dudley, Worcs.
  • Personal Inscription NOT GONE FROM MEMORY OR LOVE GONE TO OUR FATHER'S HOME ABOVE FROM HIS SORROWING WIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 10786
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