HUGHES, Walter James Frederick

Known as: 
Fred
Rank: 
Corporal
Unit / Base: 
4 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Essex Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
6027269
Died : 
Friday, July 7, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
21
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Corporal Walter Hughes, 'D' Troop, was killed in action during operations in Normandy, France. Son of Walter Edward and Edith Margaret Hughes, of Ingatestone, Essex.
 
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/79.
Enquiry from his nephew / Commando Association newsletter 92 (1991).
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 
Photo of grave in Gallery: 
Yes

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