HUGHES, Joseph Harold
| Service Number: | 6090 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 July 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Preston, Lancashire, England, 5 March 1900 |
| Home Town: | Bayswater, Bayswater, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tinsmith |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 13 August 1962, aged 62 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6090, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 6090, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 6090, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Argyllshire, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Joseph Harold Hughes was one of three sons of Frederick Malcolm and Esther Hughes, of Bayswater, Western Australia who served overseas in the AIF. Joseph was only 16 years and four months when he enlisted. The family had come to Western Australia from Lancashire, England during 1912.
His 18-year-old brother Thomas was killed in action at Mouquet Farm shortly after. His 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 in 1917, ‘overage and rheumatism’.
When the father arrived home, he learned of his youngest son serving in France and wrote to the AIF requesting that Joseph be sent home. The authorities agreed and Joseph was returned to Australia during September 1918.
Shortly after he had left France, Joseph’s older brother Frederick, age 22, died in Rouen of pneumonia, two days before the armistice in 1918.