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Walter William Hughes

Private

Service No. 242600

Age 19

Died on 16 April 1917

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes, of 226, Wilton St., Lozells, Birmingham.

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Henry Harrison

Walter, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Walter, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, although so many of our comrades must have been blown...

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