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Edmund Victor HUGHES

Regimental number48
Place of birthMayfield, Waratah, New South Wales
SchoolWest Wallsend Public School, West Wallsend, New South Wales
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationWarder
AddressPolice Station, Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation23
Next of kinSergeant Hughes, Police Station, Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales
Previous military serviceServed in the Citizen Forces
Enlistment date18 August 1914
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll17 August 1914
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name4th Battalion, A Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/21/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A14 Euripides on 20 October 1914
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll4th Field Artillery Brigade
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularWounded at Gallipoli on 29th April, 1915 by shrapnel.
FateDied of wounds 9 November 1917
Place of death or woundingZonnebeke, Belgium
Age at death25
Age at death from cemetery records25
Place of burialSt. Sever Cemetery Extension (Block P, Plot III, Row U, Grave No. 5A), Rouen, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
13
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Samuel and Caroline HUGHES, 13 alexander Street, Hamilton, New South Wales. Native of Mayfield, New South Wales
Family/military connectionsCousin: Pte Edwin Henson, 55th Battalion, killed in action at Polygon Wood, Belgium.

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