Richard George Hughes

Service number: 4804

Rank: Lance Corporal

Unit: 54th Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Richard Hughes was born at Manly in 1897. He worked at Arnott’s Biscuit Factory. He enlisted on 30 August 1915 giving as next of kin his mother Annie Hughes of 36 Belgrave Street.

He embarked on 8 March 1916, and served with the 2nd Battalion, then the 54th Battalion.

He sustained a hand wound in action in France on 1 November 1916. He was promoted to Lance-Corporal on 29 September 1918, then was wounded again on 29 September 1918.

Following an attack of appendicitis, he was returned to Australia on the Derbyshireon 2 March 1919.