IN MEMORIAM.
lirfrHJ'*.- In loving memory of our dear brother, Wilfred James Hughes, ssretclicr bearer, Oth .Kcinioreei mentis, who died of wounds in .Hel- ' May otli, 1917, aged 19 yours and 2 mcmjjh.s. "For his country's .sake." ".Died of wouihlk say the cables lliwt is al the tale they tell Of the bravo young lad who loved ! us, j Of the lad wo loved so well. How tire life was .sped we. know not, "What the last word, look or thought Only'that he did liis duty, Died as bravely as lie fought. —ilnserted by his loving brothers and sisters, T. L. B. and G.M. lliighe;;, W'oraroa. HUttHES.— lu loving memory of our dear son, Wilfred James Hughes, stretcher bearer, 9th .Reinforcements, who died of wounds in Belgium, May sth, 1917, aged 19 years and two months. "For his country's sake." In a distant landi lie l'i'os, At rest in a soldier's grave. His battlei fought, lits iimme enrolled On the scroll of the deathless brave. A lonely grave in a far-off land, A grave we may never see. But while life and memory la.st Wo still remember thee. —lusertedi by his loving mother and fisher, J?, and T. Hughe,-, We nitron .
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 4 May 1918, Page 2
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201IN MEMORIAM. Levin Daily Chronicle, 4 May 1918, Page 2
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