PRIVATE W HUGHES
ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS
8TH JANUARY 1916 AGE 21
BURIED: TWELVE TREE COPSE CEMETERY, GALLIPOLI, TURKEY
There is something rather poignant about this inscription - Henefail is the old smithy in the village of Llanfaethlu on the Isle of Anglesey. Private Hughes' mother wanted to make sure that anyone who should chance to pass her son's grave on the remote Gallipoli peninsular should know that this is where her son belonged.
The Royal Welsh Fusiliers were involved in holding off the Turkish attack at Gully Ravine on 7 January and I am assuming that Private Hughes died as a result of this action. Rather sadly, the Fusiliers had been evacuated from Suvla on 19 December but had been brought back to Helles on the 26th.