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Military service
Service number:
283054
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division:
85th Bn.
Birth:
June 4, 1894
Death:
October 30, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Sylvester and Grace Hughes, of Avonport; husband of Susie Brooks Hughes, of Avonport, King's Co., Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private William Walter Hughes
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Photo of William Walter Hughes
Pte. W.W. Hughes 85th Battalion -
Inscription on Menin Gate Memorial
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail November 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private William Walter Hughes
Digital gallery of
Private William Walter Hughes
Digital gallery of
Private William Walter Hughes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 260 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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