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Major OWAIN ELWY HUWS HUGHES

Service Number: 71529
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Welch Fusiliers

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 February 1945

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

50. B. 6.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Territorial Decoration
  • Additional Info Croix de Guerre (France). Son of Thomas and Margaret Hughes; husband of Edna Marion Hughes, of West Kirby, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription "FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE"
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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