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Sapper ROBERT HUGHES

Service Number: 5553
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Tunnelling Corps

1st Coy.

Date of Death

Died 28 May 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

XII. B. 31A.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Margaret Hughes; husband of Rachel Hughes, of 40, Railway St., Cook's Hill, Newcastle, New South Wales.
  • Personal Inscription WHAT WE CALL DEATH IS SIMPLY REST A PEACEFUL SLEEP ON JESU'S BREAST
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