212824 Pte. Stewart Hughes British Army 1/5 Btn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders from:Londonderry (d.14th Sep 1915) Stewart Hughes worked as an Apprentice at the Foyle Shipyard in Londonderry. He ran away to Glasgow and enlisted into The 1/5 Battalion Princes Louise's Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.
He enlisted under the name David Rafferty No. 2618. (His sister Jane was married to a man named Thomas Rafferty so he took that surname, and used her as his next of Kin)
On 14/09/1915 he died of enteric fever in Egypt -he was interred in Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery. Name inscribed on St Columb's Cathedral (Church of Ireland) Memorial to the men connected with that cathedral who died during the 1914-18 War, and on St Augustine's Church (Church of Ireland), Londonderry, First World War Memorial. Name also commemorated on the Diamond War Memorial. was read out at a memorial service held, in St Columb's (Church of Ireland) Cathedral, Londonderry, on Sunday, July 30, 1916, to pay homage to the memory of the men of the city of Derry, who had died, or were presumed dead, during the second year of the First World War.
He was the son of Stewart Hughes (railway engine driver, born County Donegal circa 1860/61), 25, Barry Street, Londonderry, and Sarah (daughter of George McIntyre, born Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1859/60). His brother of George A.Hughes (born 1885/86); who also died during the First World War
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