Name: HUGHES, JOHN KENNETH
Initials: J K
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 79 Field Regt.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 30/12/1944
Service No: 1156782
Additional information: Son of Arthur and Irene Hughes, of Wybunbury, Cheshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. 123.
Cemetery: BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY
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He was killed on december 30th 1944 as a grenade exploded in a cannons nozzle and destroyed the vlosing device on the rear end of the cannon. 79 Field Regt. 314 Battery, C Troop, B Subsection

Source-Bron: P. Reinders - Royal Artillery Units Netherlands 1944-1945