Name
Guy Ferguson Hughes
29 July 1880
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/12/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Horse Guards
Guard's Div. Cycle Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIEILLE-CHAPELLE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, LACOUTURE
I. A. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
LIEUTENANT G.F. HUGHES, INDIAN ARMY,AND ROYAL HORSE GUARDS, 21ST DECEMBER 1915
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials, Whimple War Memorial, Devon
Pre War
Guy Ferguson Hughes was born in Kasauli, Bengal, India on 29 July 1880, the son of William Templer Hughes and his second wife, Georgina Maria Hughes (nee Phillpotts). He was baptised at Umbala, Bengal, India on 17 October 1880. On the 1891 Census he was living at Dunley House, Bovey Tracey, Devon with his parents, siblings and servants. He returned to India to serve as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Army and was commissioned on 21 April 1901. (His father was General in the Indian Staff Corps). On the 1911 Census he had retired as a Lieutenant from the 12th Cavalry, Indian Army and was a boarder, c/o Mrs Helen Lowings, High Street, Silsoe, Beds and a student in the Land Agent's Office, Silsoe, Ampthill, Beds. He married Hilda Mary Forster on 28 April 1914 at St Peter's, Cranley Gardens, Kensington and Chelsea, London. They had a child, Rosemary Hilda born on 6 June 1915 and baptised on 3 July 1915 at St Peter, Cranley Gardens, Kensington and Chelsea, London, at which time they were living at 78 Church Street, Chelsea. They later lived at lived at Larkhere, Ottery St Mary, Devon. His widow's address is given by the CWGC as Howe Green House, Bishop's Stortford. [near Great Hallingbury]
Wartime Service
As a retired officer, Guy was liable to recall until 1926 and served in France from 13 August 1915. A report in the Western Times, states that he was killed as the result of a bomb explosion in France.
Additional Information
Probate was granted to his widow Hilda Mary Hughes on 1 April 1916 in London, with effects of £72 18s 1d. His widow received a war gratuity of £49 and pay owing of £5 6s 9d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
