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R.C. Hughes
Age at death:  
Born:  
Full name: Robert Charles Hughes (or Hughes-Dudley)
Service, Regiment,
Corps, etc:		 London Regiment
Unit, ship, etc: 15th Battalion (Civil Service Rifles)
Enlisted:  
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Decorations:  
War (and theatre): WW1(F&F)
Date of death: 17 August 1918
Manner of death: KIA
Family details:  
Residence:  
Home department: Board of Trade - Laobur Department (West Midlands Division)
Civilian rank:  
Cemetery or
memorial:		 Vis en Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais (Panel 10)

Additional information and photographs

For an account of the action in which Robert Hughes almost certainly died, involving heavy casualties at Bois des Tailles (known by the troops as 'toute de suite wood' or 'toot sweet valley') from 16 August 1918, see The History of the Prince of Wales Own Civil Service Rifles (published 1921). 

Robert Hughes is commemorated on the scroll within the Civil Service Rifles Memorial at Somerset House, London WC2 and on the Memorial to Staff of the Ministry of Labour, now hanging in Caxton House, Tothill Street, London SW1.

 
 

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