Home of Record: Davis, Tucker County, West Virginia.
His unit was in action in the vicinity of Saint-Juvin when he died of wounds.
The mother of Sgt. Lester F. Hughes, Ida F. (Henry) Hughes, at the invitation of the U.S. Govt. (Pilgrimage of Mothers and Widows of Soldiers, etc. interred in Cemeteries in Europe), traveled from Davis in Tucker Co., WV, to New York, NY, where she continued her trip via the steamship "George Washington" on July 29, 1931, to visit the place where her son was buried in France who died from his wounds on Oct. 31, 1918 less than two weeks before the end of World War I.
Home of Record: Davis, Tucker County, West Virginia.
His unit was in action in the vicinity of Saint-Juvin when he died of wounds.
The mother of Sgt. Lester F. Hughes, Ida F. (Henry) Hughes, at the invitation of the U.S. Govt. (Pilgrimage of Mothers and Widows of Soldiers, etc. interred in Cemeteries in Europe), traveled from Davis in Tucker Co., WV, to New York, NY, where she continued her trip via the steamship "George Washington" on July 29, 1931, to visit the place where her son was buried in France who died from his wounds on Oct. 31, 1918 less than two weeks before the end of World War I.
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