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Updates for Private Edward Hughes
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30/05/2021 Family: James Hughes, Rebecca Hughes, Patrick Hughes (born 1st November 1873), James Hughes (born 28th August 1875), Joseph Hughes (born 1st December 1876), Ellen Hughes (born 15th February 1879), Mary Hughes (born 21st June 1881), Edward Hughes (born 5th February 1884), Charlotte Hughes (born 18th January 1887), Bridget Hughes (born 18th April 1889), Charles Hughes (born 14th June 1894).
30/05/2021 Edward Hughes was born on 5th February 1884 near Coalisland in County Tyrone. He was on of nine children born in the Coalisland area, seven surviving.
30/05/2021 The CWGC records that Private Edward Hughes was the husband of Maggie Hughes of 67 Parkhead Rows, Bellshill.
30/05/2021 The 1901 census records 17 year old Edward is working as a “car man”. His father was a coal miner. The family was living at Derry, Tullyniskane, County Tyrone.
30/05/2021 By 1911, the census tells us that Edward no longer lived with the family at at Derry, Tullyniskane. His 50 year old father was still working as a coal miner.
30/05/2021 Edward was married to Margaret and had children. They lived in Bellshill, east of Glasgow.
30/05/2021 Private Edward Hughes arrived in the Balkans with the 7th Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers on 9th July 1915.
30/05/2021 Private Hughes was injured at Gallipoli and removed to a hospital in Britain.
30/05/2021 Private Edward Hughes died of wounds on 17th December 1915 in a Glasgow hospital.
30/05/2021 Private Edward Hughes was buried at home at Bothwell (BELLSHILL) Cemetery, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
30/05/2021 Edward Hughes is believed to be commemorated locally TWICE on Dungannon War Memorial. There is a Private E Hughes listed on the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers plaque.
30/05/2021 Edward Hughes enlisted in Hamilton, Lanark, Scotland.
30/05/2021 Edward Hughes was the son of James and Rebecca Hughes. James Hughes and Rebecca Atkinson were married on 4th February 1873 in the district of Dungannon.
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23/12/2018 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 25th December 1915: Coalisland
23/12/2018 James Hughes, Coalisland, was notified on Saturday by telegram that his son, Edward Hughes, who enlisted for the term of the war, died that day in a Glasgow hospital of wounds received in the Dardanelles. The deceased, who lived in Glasgow, leaves a wife and children.
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30/12/2015 Private Edward Hughes is also commemorated on Bellshill War Memorial.
30/12/2015 Mr J Hughes, Coalisland, was notified on Saturday by telegram that his son, Edward Hughes, who enlisted for the term of the war, died that day in a Glasgow hospital of wounds received in the Dardanelles. The deceased, who lived in Glasgow, leaves a wife and children.
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30/12/2015 From the Tyrone Courier dated 23rd December 1915:
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