Profile

HUGHES, Thomas
(Service number 78569)

Aliases
First Rank Trooper Last Rank Trooper

Birth

Date 20/05/1897 Place of Birth Napier

Enlistment Information

Date 10 September 1917 Age 20 years
Address at Enlistment Kingsdown
Occupation Dairy farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Mrs Polly HUGHES (mother), Kingsdown, Timaru
Religion Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

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Military Awards

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Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date 18 August 1940 Age 43 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference General Section, Row 95, Plot 196
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Thomas Hughes was the son of Shepherd and Mary (Polly, née Taylor) Hughes. He was educated at Timaru South and Kingsdown schools. Trooper T. Hughes returned to New Zealand from Egypt per the troopship “Ellenga”, embarking at Suez on 23 July 1919 and arriving in late August.His name at death was Thomas Shepperd Hughes.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [04 April 2020]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [April 2020]; School Admission records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [07 April 2020]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [07 April 2020]; Sun, 16 August 1919 (Papers Past) [04 April 2020]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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