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Military service
Service number:
D/136195
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
January 28, 1922
Carleton Place, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 22, 1942
Montreal, Québec
Death:
September 17, 1944
Mont Lambert, Boulogne, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
2. C. 4.
Additional information
Son of William James Hughes and Mabel Vaughn Hughes, of Carleton Place, Ontario. Brother of Morley, Freda and Pilot Officer William Robert Hughes, RCAF, killed in action the 31 August 1941.
The Town of Carleton Place remembered Private Hughes by naming a street in his honour.
Additional citations
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal
Digital gallery of Private Cyril Garnet Strong Hughes
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Cemetery
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Cyril Garnet Strong Hughes
Digital gallery of
Private Cyril Garnet Strong Hughes
Digital gallery of
Private Cyril Garnet Strong Hughes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 340 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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