Noel Joseph HUGHES

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Service Number:	NX94760
Enlisted:	9 April 1942
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/5th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Newtown, New South Wales, Australia, 28 December 1922
Home Town:	Leichhardt, Leichhardt, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Railway Employee
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 25 July 1945, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery (CWGC) Grave Reference Location ~ Plot MM. Row D. Grave 11. Personal Inscription ~ "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE. . .ALWAYS REMEMBERED"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Leichhardt War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Corporal, NX94760
9 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX94760
11 Feb 1944:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, 2nd/5th Infantry Battalion

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