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Private HOPKIN HUGHES

Service Number: 108286
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

59th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 05 December 1917

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

III. E. 22.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, of Briton Ferry; husband of Edith Maud Jenkins (formerly Hughes), of 2, Park St., Briton Ferry, Glam.
  • Personal Inscription HE LAID HIS RICHEST GIFT AT THE ALTAR OF DUTY HIS LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2139
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