B HUGHES was serving as a Sapper in the 1st Field Company of the Canadian Royal Engineers when he died of wounds received in No 1 Canadian General Hospital, Etaples on 1st December 1917. He was aged and is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery in the Pas de Calais.

The 1st Field Company sailed from Quebec on 3rd October 1914 on the Troopship Zeeland arriving in England on 15th. They arrived in France on 12th February 1915. Sapper Hughes received bullet wounds to his back and wrist.

Steve Kingsford