Sergeant 2734669 Herbert Hughes
Welsh Guards
Herbert Hughes was the son of Mabel Kathleen Morgan, of Bwlchycibau. He lived with his grandmother at Rose Cottage (Llanfechain). He is remembered as a tall, quiet, and very ‘steady’ young man whose rapid rise to Sergeant was not surprising. His unit was the 3rd Battalion, Welsh Guards which was part of the 1st Guards Infantry Brigade within the 1st UK Infantry Division that fought as part of the V Corps, 1st British Army during the North African campaign. That Army had landed as part of Operation Torch, the invasion by a joint British and
American force into western North Africa, on 8th November 1942. He died on 9th April 1943, probably in action around Medjiz el Bab, aged 21, in the last stages of the Tunisian Campaign (17th November 1942 – 13th May 1943) and is buried in Enfidaville War Cemetery
, Tunisia. (Grave Reference: II. B. 4.)
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The Enfidaville War Cemetery contains men of the First and Eighth Army who died in the final battles of the North African campaign along with many of their comrades of the Air Forces. There are 1,551 servicemen buried at this cemetery 88 of whom are unidentified.