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Personal data

• Name HUGHES
• Initials TE
• First name THOMAS EDWARD
• Place of birth Rhyl
• Country North Wales, Wales
• Family Son of Thomas and Sophia Hughes
• Extra info Sister Brooks Lillian

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Sydney on 20 April 1916
• Service number 75
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Regiment and unit 1st Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps
• Division - Brigade 1st Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 1st Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarkation in Sydney on 18 May 1916; to France on 1 December 1916; to Brigade school on 3 September 1917; back to unit on 30 September 1917

Death

• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on chest, fracture on right thigh at n°2 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 8 October 1917
• Died at the age of 35
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - B - 12

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