HUGHES, Frederick Wilson
| Service Number: | 1563 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 December 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 8th Light Trench Mortar Battery |
| Born: | Preston, Lancashire, England, 16 February 1896 |
| Home Town: | Bayswater, Bayswater, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Eldon Street Preston, Lancashire |
| Occupation: | Salesman |
| Died: | Pneumonia, France, 9 November 1918, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen Block S, Plot III, Row Z, Grave No. 24. EVER REMEMBERED |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bayswater War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1563, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 22 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1563, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Itonus embarkation_ship_number: A50 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1563, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Itonus, Fremantle | |
| 16 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 24th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade | |
| 9 Nov 1918: | Involvement Gunner, 1563, 8th Light Trench Mortar Battery, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1563 awm_unit: 8th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1918-11-09 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Frederick Wilson Hughes was one of three sons of Frederick Malcolm and Esther Hughes, of Bayswater, Western Australia who served overseas in the AIF. Frederick’s younger brother Thomas was only 18 years of age when he was killed in action at Mouquet Farm in 1916. A younger brother, Joseph Hughes, enlisted at the age of 16 years and four months before being returned to Australia after being caught out under age. The father, Frederick Malcolm Hughes, also enlisted in the AIF, at 47 years of age, and spent 11 days on active serve with the 51st Battalion in France. He fell sick and was evacuated to England, then was returned to Australia, ‘overage and rheumatism’.
The family had come to Western Australia from Lancashire, England during 1912.
Frederick Hughes served at Gallipoli for six months with the 11th Battalion. He transferred to the Artillery during the reorganization of the AIF in 1916. He survived over two and half years on the Western Front before he fell ill with influenza and was admitted to hospital on the 3 November 1918. His condition worsened and he died of pneumonia in a General hospital in Rouen, France, two days before the Armistice.