Richard George Hughes. Third Engineer, Mercantile Marine, RMS Leinster. Lost at sea, aged 36, as a result of enemy action in the Irish Sea on 10 October 1918. Richard was born at Holyhead and was the son of Sarah Elizabeth Hughes and the late Robert Hughes, a Railway Goods Foreman. In 1891 he lived with his family at 4 Tower Gardens, Holyhead and in 1911 at 25 Cambria Street, Holyhead. He was the husband of Laura Hughes (nee Jones) of "East Lynne", Rhos-y-Gaer Avenue, Holyhead. They married at Holyhead in 1911. They had two sons, Norman S Hughes (b. Liverpool, 1912) and Leonard S Hughes (b. Holyhead,1915). In his will he left £277.8s.2d to his wife, Laura.It is believed that he would not normally have sailed with the Leinster that day. He had changed shift with a friend as a favour. |