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Military service
Service number:
246251
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Bn.
Birth:
July 6, 1895
Carleton Place, Ontario
Enlistment:
May 12, 1916
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
September 29, 1918
Cambrai, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. B. 12.
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Jessie Hughes of Carleton Place, Ontario.
Private Cornelius O'Donovan and Private Percy Grenville Hughes, another Carleton Place lad, together lost their lives on 29 September 1918 and are buried mere feet apart at Bourlon Wood Cemetery.
The Town of Carleton Place remembered Private Hughes by naming a street in his honour.
Digital gallery of Private Percy Grenville Hughes
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Photo of PERCY GRENVILLE HUGHES
Carleton place cenotaph
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Grenville Hughes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 433 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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