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Pte. Henry Hughes
British Army 1/5th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Sheffield, England
(d.10th Apr 1918)
Pte. Henry Hughes served with the Yorks and Lancs Regiment 1/5th Btn.He was executed for desertion on 10th April 1918 aged 27 and is buried in the Huts Cemetery in Belgium. The mass pardon of 306 British Empire soldiers executed for certain offences during the Great War was enacted in section 359 of the Armed Forces Act 2006, which came into effect on royal assent on 8th November 2006