Francis Robert Augustus Hughes (1894 - 1915)

Born 9 Feb 1894 in Pelorus Sound, Marlborough, New Zealand

Ancestors

Died 8 May 1915 at age 21 in Gallipoli, Turkey

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Robert Hughes is an Anzac who served in World War One.

Biography

Francis Robert Augustus was born in 1894. He was the son of James Hughes and Sydney Amy Severne. ^[1] He passed away in 1915 age 21. ^[2]

Robert Francis Augustus Hughes (Service number 6/267 )served in the Army during World War 1. He was a Private with the Canterbury Infantry Battalion, 12th (Nelson) Company . He gave his next of kin as James Hughes (father), of Canvastown, Blenheim, Marlborough, He embarked 16 October 1914 aboard HMNZT 4 or HMNZT 11 the vessels Tahiti or Athenic , as a Private in the Canterbury Infantry Battalion , Main Body He was Killed in Action, 8 May 1915 at the Daisy Patch, in Gallipoli . His name appears on the Twelve Tree Copse (New Zealand) Memorial, at Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, in Helles, Turkey ; the Marlborough War Memorial, at 20 Seymour Street, Blenheim, and the Canvastown Memorial Hall, on State Highway 6, in Canvastown ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ http://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
   • NZ Birth registration 1894/17629
2. ↑ http://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
   • NZ Death registration 1918/47372
3. ↑ Online Cenotaph, Auckland War Memorial Museum