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Hint: This site is intended as a search aid - not a definitive source. It is essentially an index to documents that seem to relate to this person plus a very brief precis of relevant elements. Sources often conflict and I also flag things with a ? when I am unsure. So if the information below is important to you, then please check the original sources to see what else they contain (and in case I have inadvertantly introduced transcription and/or precising errors). There can be additional information that was not included in the database for both space and copyright reasons.


 

Surname HUGHES
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) Arthur
Regimental Number 156
RankPrivate
Unit Name 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
StateQld
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)

B5172: next of kin in Ulmurra Clarence R. NSW.
URL2: left behind in hospital at Woodstock when 5QIB returned to Aust.
URL3: LONG LOST RELATIVES [BY ARRANGEMENT WITH 'LLOYDS NEWS'] HOME INQUIRIES. HUGHES (Arthur), last heard of in Kimberley, South Africa, two years ago [c1906]. Sister Tilley asks.
URL4: TrooperA HUGHES, of Ulmarra, arrived in Sydney last week [c6.1902]. He has to report at Brisbane, where he will get his discharge, and thence he will return to the Clarence.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 496
B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172
Bne. Courier: Brisbane Courier newspaper date(s) 16.5.1902
Launc. Tele.: Launceston Daily Telegraph newspaper date(s) 20.11.1908
C&R Examiner: Clarence & Richmond Examiner newspaper date(s) 7.6.1902
External Link URL1www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf
External Link URL2nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19184287
External Link URL3nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151927384
External Link URL4nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61388411


Please email me if you can contribute any other relevant information about this person (eg any other military service, where in Australia they came from or when/where they died). Also, if you find an external link broken.


Apology: For some time now it has been difficult to keep up with the newly available sources (especially the Trove newspaper site) plus the flow of contributions and queries. So I have been forced to prioritise maintenance and data entry over replying to correspondence. Nevertheless, your contributions are being added to the database and acknowledged on the contributions page and, although my replies are many months behind, I will attempt to get to them more often.
 
Colin Roe
Canberra

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