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• Name HUGHES
• Initials AR
• First name ALFRED RICHARD
• Place of birth Alstonville
• Country New South Wales, Australia
• Family Son of Edward and Mary Hughes, of Rock Valley, Lismore, New South Wales

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Lismore on 23 August 1914
• Service number 715
• Rank Corporal
• Regiment and unit 9th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 3rd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 1st Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarkation in Brisbane on 24 September 1914; to France on 28 June 1917

Death

• Wounded Pleurisy, to hospital on 23 April 1915; transferred to England on 26 April 1915; back to unit on 20 July 1917
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds on head and gassed at n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 21 September 1917
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXIII - D - 5A

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