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Private GILBERT HUGHES

Service Number: 3859534
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 October 1942

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

XXVI. H. 2.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Emma Hughes, of Wigan, Lancashire; husband of Edna Elizabeth Hughes, of Newtown, Wigan.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. MAY WE WHO ARE LEFT BE WORTHY OF SO GREAT A SACRIFICE
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Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 7368
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