Harold Gilmore HUGHES [596]

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SAGHS Birth Registrations database
Surname:HUGHES
Given Names:Harold Gilmore
Date of Birth:09-Dec-1893
Gender:M
Father:George Robert HUGHES
Mother:Mary FISHER
Birth Residence:North Adelaide
District:Adelaide
Book/Page:535/17


SAGHS Death Registrations database
Surname:HUGHES
First Names:Harold Gilmore
Death Date:02-Apr-1917
Age:23
Gender:M
Marital Status:S
Place of Death:Noreuil [FRA]
Residence:Eastwood
Relative:L HUGHES [S]
District:Adelaide
Book/Page:417/362
Notes:Symbol=W.


SAGHS SA Cemeteries database
Surname:HUGHES
First Names:Harold Gilmore
Death Date:02-Apr-1917
Age:23
Cemetery:Walkerville Wesleyan
Notes:Killed in France.
Source:Memorial Inscription


WW1 Embarkation Rolls - Harold Gilmore Hughes
Service Number: 4497
Rank: Private
Roll title: 10 Infantry Battalion - 13 to 23 Reinforcements (January-November 1916)
Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918
Date of embarkation: 11 January 1916
Place of embarkation: Adelaide
Ship embarked on: HMAT Miltiades A28


HUGHES, Harold Gilmore
Rank: Private
Service No: 4497
Date of Death: 02/04/1917
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F. 50th Bn
Grave Reference Sp. Mem. B. 10.
Cemetery Noreuil Australian Cemetery
Additional Information: Son of George Robert and Mary Hughes, of Eastwood Terrace, Eastwood, South Australia.


A.I.F. Project
Harold Gilmore HUGHES enlisted on 13 September 1915 in the 10th Battalion, 14th Reinforcement, Australian Imperial Force, with the rank of Private, Number 4497, and was listed as Killed in Action on 2 April 1917


Australian Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry & Bureau files, 1914-18 War 1DRL 0428
4497 Private Harold Gilmore Hughes 50th Battalion
France


50th Batt. A.I.F., HUGHES H.G. 4497, K. April 2nd, 1917. Det D/B
He came over with me in the reinforcement for the 10th Battalion and was in A Coy, and I knew him well. I did not see him get killed on April 2nd, but I know for certain that he was buried by our own stretcher-bearers. It was at Noreuil and our stretcher-bearers brought him with others back a little way and buried them. JNA. Ref --- Pte Kenworthy. 4506. No. 16 Gen. Hospital, Le Treport. Sept 4th, 1917.


50th Batt. A.I.F., HUGHES H.G. 4497, "A" Coy, "K April 2nd, 1917. Det D&B"
Hughes was buried by a party from the Coy., in the cemetery just outside Norieul with Joyce, Tucker, and Turpin. I was not present at the time, and doubt if a cross was erected over their graves, but quite certain about them being buried there."
Witness: Francis R.S. (C.S.N.) 647. "A" Coy., 50th Batt.
Taken at the 13th Training Battalion, Codford. J.G.W. October 10th, '17.
B. Whitmas, No 4 Command Depot, Codford.


Navre 12th October, 1917.
50th Batt. A.I.F., HUGHES H.G. 4497, K. April 2nd, 1917. Det D/B.
Pt. Harold Geo. Hughes is a relation of mine. He was in A. Co., I.Pltn. I was told by a Pioneer Corpl., whose name I forgot, that Hughes was buried outside the village of Noreuil, in the open, and there is a cross on the grave. I have written to his sister, Miss Lucy Hughes, Eastwood Terrace, Eastwood, Vis Adelaide, S.A. Informant: Pt. Osborne, S.A. 2564 50th Australians, A.Co., III.Pltn. formerly I. Pltn. Australian Camp, Rouelles. RDM.


50 Australian I.F. Hughes H.G. 4497 (K. April 2/17) Det D/B.
"I saw a man called Hughes (50. B.) after he had been killed, about April 2nd at Noreuil. He fell in No Mans' Land while we were advancing and I saw him lying on the ground dead. The others told me that death was instantaneous. We captured Noreuil that day and held it. I am sorry that I do not know where he was buried. I knew him well as we came over in the same boat."
Eye-witness: Yes.
Description: From S. Aus: single; worked at Crawford, wholesale Grocers, King William St:
Informant: Pte. Ralph Cocks. 4453, 50 Australian I.F. B Co: VII Pl:
3rd Southern General Hospital, Radcliffe Buildings, Oxford.
3.11.17. Hilda M. Pickard-Cambridge.
Home address: Cumberland Avenue, Clarence Park, Adelaide. S. Aus.


Roll of Honour - Harold Gilmore Hughes
Service Number: 4497
Rank: Private
Unit: 50th Australian Infantry Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918
Date of death: 02 April 1917
Place of death: France
Cause of death: Killed in action
Age at death: 23
Place of association: Burnside, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Noreuil Australian Cemetery, Picardie, France
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army