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26/12/2021 Private Hugh Torrens is commemorated locally on Fivemiletown War Memorial.
26/12/2021 Private Hugh Torrens is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, twelve kilometres west of Ypres town centre. His inscription reads: A LOVING HUSBAND, TRUE AND KIND A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY LEFT BEHIND
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30/12/2015
30/12/2015 Most of the information here was derived from the book, 'Fivemiletown's Fallen'. Page 70 is devoted to Private Hugh Torrens.
30/12/2015 The CWGC record Private Hugh Torrens as the husband of Mrs M J Torrens of 2 Falcon Place, Greenhill Road, Paisley.
30/12/2015 Private Hugh Torrens was serving with 1st/5th Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders when he died of wounds on 5th October 1918. He was 31 years old.
30/12/2015 Hugh Torrens enlisted in Stirling, Scotland.
30/12/2015 Hugh Torrens moved to live in Scotland.
30/12/2015 The 1901 census lists Hugh as age 14, boarding at house 10 in Sess, Cole, County Tyrone. He was still at school.
30/12/2015 Hugh Torrens was born on 13th January 1887 in Fivemiletown, County Tyrone. Hugh's mother's maiden name was Montgomery.
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