HUGHES, Stanley Raymond

Rank: 
Fusilier
Unit / Base: 
'Special Boat Section'
Regiment/Corps: 
Special Air Service and 1st Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers
Service: 
Army
Number: 
4130995
Honours & Awards: 
Died : 
Sunday, April 8, 1945
Between: 
Sunday, April 8, 1945 to Monday, April 9, 1945
Killed in action or died of wounds

Fusilier Stanley Hughes M.M., SBS, SAS Regiment, AAC, attached to 2 Commando Brigade, died during operations at Lake Comacchio. Son of Edward Lloyd Hughes and Bertha Hughes; husband of Hilda May Hughes, of Stoneycroft, Lancashire.
Previously awarded the Military Medal for his gallantry on 2 December 1943 whilst serving in the 1st Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers.

Sources
CWGC
London Gazette 36436, page 1366.
National Archives file WO373/5/323.

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