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New Zealand Expeditionary Force, yst. _s._ of the late Rev.
William Henry Hughes, Vicar of St. Hilary, Marazion, Cornwall, by his
wife, Kathleen, yst. dau. of the late Charles Gumm, of White Hall,
Chingford, Essex; _b._ Trevarthian, Marazion, 25 Sept. 1887; educ.
Kelly College, Tavistock; settled in New Zealand; joined the Wellington
Mounted Rifles on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Gaba
Tepe, Gallipoli, 30 May, 1915; _unm._
=HUGHES, LIONEL HOLFORD=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st.
Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., only _s._ of the late Allen
Edward Hughes, of Cintra, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, Earthenware
Manufacturer (died 15 April, 1916), by his wife, Evelyn Emma, yst. dau.
of The Rev. Samuel Plant, Vicar of Weston-on-Trent and Prebendary of
Lichfield; _b._ Wychdon Lodge, near Stafford, 25 July, 1895; educ.
St. Ronan's, Worthing, and Lancing College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the
3rd North Staffords, 6 March, 1914; went to France, 21 Sept. 1914,
where he was attd. to the 1st Battn. and was killed in action near the
Rue du Bois, 29 Oct. 1914; _unm._ Lieut.-Col. de Falbe, C.M.G.,
D.S.O., commanding 1st North Staffords, wrote: "He was killed to-day,
by a shell in the trenches near Rue du Bois, a small village two miles
south of Armentières. He was killed instantaneously, and is buried
on the west side of the Armentières-Wavrin Railway, and 300 yards
north-west of the level crossing at Rue du Bois. The grave is marked
with a cross inscribed with his name and regiment."
[Illustration: =Lionel Holford Hughes.=]
=HUGHES, PRYCE=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, Brecknockshire Battn. (24th)
South Wales Borderers (T.F.), _s._ of Robert Hughes, of New Inn
Hotel, Merthyr, Licensed Victualler; _b._ Brecon, 8 Feb. 1874;
educ. Butcher's Grammar School there; joined the 1st Brecknockshire
Volunteer Battn. South Wales Borderers (No. 2498), 27 Feb. 1893, and
passed into the Territorial Force (No. 30) 3 April, 1908; became Sergt.
12 Dec. 1908, and later Coy. Sergt.-Major. He served in the South
African War with the South Wales Borderers (Queen's medal), and on the
outbreak of the European War volunteered for foreign service; went to
Aden with his Battn. 29 Oct. 1914, and died on active service there, 19
June, 1915; _unm._ Buried in Government Cemetery there. He had the
Long Service Medal.
=HUGHES, SIDNEY ISAAC=, L.-Corpl., No. 12481, 1st Battn. The
Coldstream Guards, 4th _s._ of the late William Edgar Hughes,
of Leigh Farm, Woodlands, St. Mary, Hungerford, Farmer, by his wife,
Catherine (Berkeley Road, Newbury, Berks), dau. of Henry King,
of Woodlands, St. Mary, Farmer; _b._ Woodlands, St. Mary,
Hungerford, co. Berks, 15 July, 1891; educ. Newbury Church School; was
an Engineer's Fitter and Erector; volunteered after the outbreak of
war, and enlisted in the Coldstreams, 10 Sept. 1914, with two of his
brothers; appointed L.-Corpl., Dec.; went to France, 9 Jan. 1915, and
was reported missing after the fighting at Cuinchy, 25 Jan. 1915, and
is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; _unm._
[Illustration: =Sidney Isaac Hughes.=]
=HUGHES, THOMAS JOSEPH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8019),
S.S. 103750, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.
1914.
=HUGHES, THOMAS HECTOR=, Capt., 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt.,
_s._ of Frederick Hughes, of Wallfield, Reigate; _b._ there,
16 July, 1881; educ. Repton and Sandhurst; received his commission as
2nd Lieut. in the Worcesters, 3 May, 1901; gazetted Lieut. in May,
1903; acted as Adjutant from Nov. 1910 to Nov. 1913; obtained his
company, 28 June, 1911, and was killed in action near Richebourg St.
Vaast, 15 Oct. 1914, being buried 250 yards north of that place. He
was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French's Despatch of 14 Jan., 1915,
for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Capt. Hughes was
an excellent cricketer, and played for Hampshire and the Aldershot
Command. When his battn. went to Tidworth in 1911 he gave much
attention to sport and rendered assistance to Capt. Whitty towards
winning the Queen Victoria Cup in 1913. In a letter to the Daily
Telegraph, dated 21 Oct. 1914, Col. Rowland Hill, President of the
Grindelwald Sports Meeting, said: "He was for years our champion ski
expert, the capt. and centre-forward of our hockey team, one of the
best of our curlers, the capt. of our rifle team against the Swiss
marksmen. The cheeriest and best of comrades, always to the front in
any fun or sport, he will be missed and sincerely mourned by hundreds
of friends." Capt. Hughes _m._ at Hythe, co. Kent, 4 May, 1911,
Gertrude Mary, dau. of Charles Frederick Dobson, of Nottingham, and
had two children: Thomas Frederick, _b._ 15 March 1914; and Joan
Winifred, _b._ 22 June, 1912.
=HUGHES, WALLACE JOHN=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 305429, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=GORDON-HUGHES, GORDON STONHOUSE ("DICK")=, Corpl., No. 677, 8th
Battn. 90th Winnipeg Rifles ("Little Black Devils"), and posthumous
Lieut. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late Gordon
Gordon-Hughes, Capt., 92nd Gordon Highlanders, afterwards Col. and
Adjutant of the Breconshire Rifle Volunteers, by his second wife,
Elise Elizabeth (now widow of Algernon Walford Spencer, B.A.), dau. of
George Summers Griffiths, of Marl Hill, Cheltenham, and Maida Vale,
London, W., J.P., Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple and Oxford Circuit,
and gdson. of Gen. Samuel Hughes, C.B., of the Indian Army; _b._
Hampstead, 1 July, 1890; educ. Abingdon and Streatham Colleges; went
to Canada in 1904, and purchased a farm in Manitoba. In 1911 went to
Winnipeg where he became a Chartered Accountant. He had just received
his final diploma when the European War broke out in Aug. 1914, and
he immediately volunteered for Imperial service and joined the 90th
Winnipeg Rifles. He left Valcartier with the first contingent, arrived
in England in Oct., and after training on Salisbury Plain, Col. Lipsett
specially selected him as Regimental Scout. Went to France in Feb.
1915; took part in the Second Battle of Ypres, after which he was
promoted Corpl., and in the engagements at Langemarck (St. Julien),
where he was wounded in the head, gassed and crushed under sand bags,
but refused to go into Hospital; and Festubert, where, on 22 May, 1915,
he was mortally wounded. He died in Hospital at Boulogne on the 25th,
and was buried in the Military Cemetery there (Grave No. 2251) on the
27th; _unm._ Col. (now Gen.) Lipsett wrote: "In losing your son
I felt I had lost one of my very best, most reliable, and promising
men, the commission for which I recommended him was gained entirely on
his own merits, and for very good work done; a son to be proud of";
and Major A. W. Woods: "The boys of No. 2 Coy. never wavered for an
instant, it was one of the finest instances of endurance that could
be imagined, they were in a perfect inferno of shell fire. Your boy,
though terribly wounded, uttered no word of complaint, and exhibited
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