HUGHES Bertram Francis

  • First Name(s):
    Bertram 
    Francis 
  • Surname:
    HUGHES
  • Service Number:
    39713
  • Rank:

    Lance Corporal

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    4th Battalion
  • Unit:
    Y Company
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    22nd April 1917
  • Age At Death:
    27
  • Cause of Death:
    Died of wounds
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France, Grave II. P. 27.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Husband of Edith Maude Hughes, 41 Lowell St, Worcester

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HUGHES Bertram Francis Is Named On These Memorials

Worcester All Saints Church
Worcester Guildhall

Further Information About HUGHES Bertram Francis

Enlisted and resident Worcester.

1911 Census
8 The Moors
Bertram Francis Hughes, boarder, age 20, railway porter, born Wolverhampton

The following report appears in the Berrow’s Worcester Journal:
Mrs Hughes, of 41 Lowell Street, Arboretum, has received official intimation of the death from wounds received in action on the 22nd April of her husband, Lce-Corpl. B.F.Hughes (27). He was born and educated in Wolverhampton, and worked for about seven years at Shrub Hill Station, Worcester. He joined the Yeomanry in 1914, but was afterwards transferred to an infantry battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment, with which he went to France in September last.

Awarded the Victory and British War Medals.

Great Western Railway Roll of Honour:
Bertram Francis Hughes, Platform Porter, Worcester Shrub Hill, Age 27, Lance Corporal, 4th Worcester Regiment, Died of wounds 22/4/1917

Source: The Great Western Railway in the First World War by Sandra Gittins, 2010.

Death reported in the Great Western Railway staff magazine, reference 1917/07/141.  Photo in the Great Western Railway staff magazine, reference 1917/08/163.

A photograph of Lance Corporal B.F. Hughes of Worcester can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 12th May 1917, available at Worcestershire Archives.

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Credits: Census records, Berrow's Worcester Journal and medal roll index cards researched and transcribed by Paul Hudson.