HUGHES, Albert Edwin
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Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
11 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Wiltshire Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
5569217
Died :
Saturday, February 13, 1943
Died on war service
Age:
23
Cemetery/Memorial:
Lance Corporal Albert Hughes died in Egypt.
Son of Mrs. R. Newbury, of Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty lists / National Archives file WO417/58.
Notes
- Both sources show No.11 Commando which had been disbanded by the date of his death.
- Cemetery Historical Information - During the Second World War, Alexandria was again an important hospital centre, taking casualties from campaigns in the Western Desert, Greece, Crete, the Aegean Islands and the Mediterranean. Rest camps and hostels were also established there together with a powerful anti-aircraft base. Alexandria was also the communications centre for the middle and near east and became the headquarters of the Military Police. The cemetery at Hadra was extended for Second World War burials and was used from 1941.( Source: CWGC)
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