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VC749   Thomas Hughes

Name   Thomas Hughes   No.   3/5027   

VC Issue No.   749   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Connaught Rangers, 6th Battalion

Later   

Now   Disbanded

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Corporal

Place Of Birth   Coravoo, near Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan, Ireland

Place Of Death   At his home, Fencairn, Broomfield, near Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, Ireland

Buried/Location Ashes   Old Bloomfield Cemetery (also known as St Patrick's), Co. Monaghan, Ireland

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   6 January 1942

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   26 October 1916

VC Presented   2 June 1917 by King George V at Hyde Park, London, England

Memorials

Headstone, Old Bloomfield Cemetery (also known as St Patrick's), Co. Monaghan, Ireland

Memorial Plaque, Guillemont Church, Somme, France

By The Way…

Before joining up he was a jockey in Ireland

VC Held By

National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, England

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BORN   10 November 1885

DIED   4 January 1942   AGE   56

VC Won   3 September 1916   AGE   31

Place VC Won   Guillemont, Somme, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1916