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• Name HUGHES
• Initials R
• First name ROBERT
• Place of birth Merewether, Newcastle
• Country New South Wales, Australia
• Family Son of Joseph and Margaret Hughes; an older brother Joseph Edward and a sister.
• Extra info Husband of Rachel Hughes (nee Thompson), of 40, Railway St., Cook's Hill, Newcastle, New South Wales.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Hamilton on 26 April 1916
• Service number 5553
• Rank Sapper
• Regiment and unit 1st Tunnelling Coy. Australian Engineers
• Army - Corps - Division ?
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarkation in Melbourne on 25 October 1916; to France on 29 January 1917

Death

• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds both thighs, in n°3 Can CCS
• Date of death 28 May 1917
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XII - B - 31A

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