The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E E V Hughes


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Memorial in St Ina's Churchyard, Llanina Cardiganshire, Wales

Photograph by "Peter Lucas"


Private Edward Erasmus Vaughan HUGHES, 202093, (5308), 2nd/4th  Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action, Egypt,  8th May 1917, age 36.

10th December 1880, born Finsbury Park, son John Vaughan & Jane Erasmus Hughes, 75 Poole's Park, Islington.

16th December 1906, St Catherines Church, Hatcham, Lewisham, Kent, Edward Erasmus Vaughan Hughes, age 26, bachelor, clerk, 59 ??????? Road, father John Vaughan Hughes, dairyman, married Edith Mason, age 30, spinster, 14 Erith? Street, Chelsea, father Thomas Mason, deceased, greengrocer.

Children - Louisa May Hughes, born 25th May 1908, Greenwich; Ernest William Hughes, born 16th April 1910, Croydon, Surrey; Frank Mason Hughes, born 4th September 1914, Croydon, Surrey; Henry Charles Vaughan Hughes, born 20th April 1916, Elham, Kent.


1911 Census -  10, Palace Road, Norwood, London - Edward Erasmus Vaughan Hughes, head, age 30, married, ledger clerk, Tobacco Manufacturer, worker, born Islington East, London; Edith Hughes, wife, age 24, married 4 years, 2 children, both still alive, Small Heath, Warwick; Louisa May Hughes, daughter, age 2, born Deptford South, London; Ernest William Hughes, son, age 11 months, born, Penge, Kent.


Enlisted Anerley, SE. Resided Norwood, Surrey.

22nd October 1917, Probate - Edward Erasmus Vaughan Hughes, of 10, Palace Road, Norwood, Surrey. Died 8th May 1917, Gaza in Syria. Administration (with will), London 22nd October to Edith Hughes, widow. Effects £191 16s 6d.

Buried at  Gaza War Cemetery, XXX. E. 12., Israel.


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