Asa Llewellwyn HUGHES

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Service Number:	131
Enlisted:	26 January 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	25th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Llanbrynmair, near Machynlleth, Wales, 1890
Home Town:	Silkstone, Ipswich, Queensland
Schooling:	Machynlleth Secondary School, Wales
Occupation:	carpenter
Died:	Killed In Action, France, 29 July 1916
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

26 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 131, 25th Infantry Battalion
29 Jun 1915:	Involvement Private, 131, 25th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
29 Jun 1915:	Embarked Private, 131, 25th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane

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Births Dec 1890 Hughes Asa Llewelyn Machynlleth 11b 131

He lived at Dafar Newydd. Emigrated to Australia in 1912. Enlisted at Ipswich, Queensland.

He was 26 and the son of David and Catherine Hughes.He is remembered on the Llanbrynmair war memorial, the village of his birth.

The war memorial near Llanbrynmair Community Centre commemorates local people who died in the First and Second World Wars.

The memorial was unveiled in 1921 in the centre of the village. It was moved to its present location in the 1980s