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Military service
Service number:
400794
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
January 14, 1895
Death:
July 24, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. D. 2.
Additional information
Son of Henry and Mary Hughes, of Fountain St., Preston, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Hughes
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Preston War Memorial
Preston Ontario Cenotaph. Dedicated November 8, 1926. The names of Preston soldiers killed in the Second World War were added in 1949. Inscribed: IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF PRESTON WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR AND IN GRATEFUL TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO SHARED ITS DANGERS. -
Grave Marker
Grave Marker - Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Entrance - Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery -
Cemetery
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery -
Photo of JOHN HUGHES
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War One Soldier Information Cards, Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Biography
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War One Soldier Information Cards, Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Hughes
Digital gallery of
Private John Hughes
Digital gallery of
Private John Hughes
Digital gallery of
Private John Hughes
Digital gallery of
Private John Hughes
Digital gallery of
Private John Hughes
Digital gallery of
Private John Hughes
Digital gallery of
Private John Hughes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 106 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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