Source: Found during research on trench raid on German positions. Another soldier, Private William Roy Hughes; reg. no. 159529 , died during a trench raid and during the search for that soldier this Circumstances of Death card was discovered. Not apparently related.
Find-A-Grave Vimy France
Family Search: When Private William Albert Hughes was born on 10 July 1899, in Sweaburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, his father, Peter Hughes, was 34 and his mother, Lanah Manzer, was 33. He lived in Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Burgessville, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. He died on 15 August 1917, in Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 18.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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