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Elijah Thomas Hughes

Private

Service No. 20120

Age 21

Died on 9 October 1917

Coldstream Guards

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West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of Thomas William and Jane Hughes, of Windmill End; husband of Mrs. Polly Edgington (formerly Hughes), of 20, Windmill End, Netherton, Dudley, Worcs.

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Henry Harrison

Elijah, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Elijah, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalion...

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