Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Percy Grenville Hughes
In memory of:
Private Percy Grenville Hughes
September 29, 1918
Cambrai, France
Military Service
246251
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Army
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
38th Bn.
Additional Information
July 6, 1895
Carleton Place, Ontario
May 12, 1916
Ottawa, Ontario
Son of Thomas and Jessie Hughes of Carleton Place, Ontario. Private Cornelius O'Donovan and Private Percy Grenville Hughes, another Carleton Place lad, together lost their lives on 29 September 1918 and are buried mere feet apart at Bourlon Wood Cemetery. The Town of Carleton Place remembered Private Hughes by naming a street in his honour.
Commemorated on Page 433 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
BOURLON WOOD CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
II. B. 12.
Bourlon is a village approximately 6 kilometres west of Cambrai. It lies between the main Cambrai to Bapaume road (N30) and the Cambrai to Arras road (D939). The BOURLON WOOD CEMETERY is signposted from the centre of the village as is the Canadian Forces Memorial. On approaching the Memorial the road should be followed to the left where an unsurfaced track descends about 200 metres to the cemetery.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Details
Photo of PERCY GRENVILLE HUGHES – Carleton place cenotaph
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