Name: Ronald Graham Hughes Rank: Technician 4th Grade Service Number: 32526899 Service: 94th General Hospital, US Army Medical Corps, United States Army Date of Birth: October 10, 1904 Place of Birth: Guysborough Intervale, Guysborough Co., Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: October 12, 1942 Place of Enlistment: New York, New York Address at Enlistment: Huntington, Long Island, New York Age at Enlistment: 38 Height: 5 feet, 6 ½ inches Complexion: Ruddy Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Brown Occupation: Waiter Marital Status: Single Date of Death: October 18, 1943 Age: 39 Cemetery: Huntington Rural Cemetery, Huntington, Suffolk Co., New York Ronald was the son of Hugh Hughes (1857-1912) and Jane (Rumbley) Hughes (circa 1846-1932). The two were married in 1871 in Guysborough. The family surname is sometimes recorded as Hughs, and Rumbley as Rumby. Ronald’s siblings were Thomas Henry Hughs (1872-1892), John William Hughs (1873-1955), Florence Matilda Hughes (b. 1876), Elizabeth Ann Hughes (b. 1883), Hugh S Hughes (1879-1881), and Annie (Hughes) Ferguson (1884-1929). Following his father’s death in 1912, Ronald and his mother eventually joined the household of his sister Annie and her husband, Hugh Cranswick Ferguson. By the time of the 1921 census, they are documented living in the Ferguson home, where Ronald is uniquely recorded as an adoptive son. Three years later, on May 27, 1924, Ronald immigrated to the U.S., traveling by train from Nova Scotia via Moncton, New Brunswick to the border at Vanceboro, Maine. He was bound for Plymouth County, Massachusetts, the home of his sister Florence and her husband, Patrick Maloney, at 192 Webster Street in Rockland, who had married in 1915. In 1940, Ronald was living in New York, at 12 Mechanic Street in Huntington as a lodger with Bertha May (Moulton) Gendron (1899-1883), and her son Eugene Joseph Gendron (1928-1976). Ronald registered for the US Draft on February 14, 1942, in Huntington, still living at 12 Mechanic St., and working for Carl Buck in Jerico, Nassau Co., NY. After enlisting in the US Army in October of 1942, Ronald was serving at the 94th General Hospital at Camp Barkeley, approximately 10 miles southwest of Abilene, Texas (near what is now Dyess Air Force Base) in 1943. Camp Barkeley was home to a massive Medical Replacement Training Center (MRTC). He applied for US citizenship on April 27, 1943, in Abilene whilst serving as a Private with the 94th General Hospital. Technician 4th Grade Ronald Graham Hughes died of pneumonia and a pulmonary embolism at the McCloskey General Hospital in Temple, Bell Co., Texas, on October 18, 1943. The 94th also operated out of McCloskey Hospital during its time in Texas. Ronald was being treated from September 26th until his death 22 days later.