Military General Service, , 7 clasps, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes
T. Hughes, Serjt 83rd Foot.,
Copy discharge papers , from Agles, Mayo, enlisted 1810 , a hatter by trade ‘Served four years in the Peninsula, eleven years and six months in the East Indies (ent. to additional half service). and the remainder at home. Wounded at Salamanca slightly in the back, Vittoria slightly in left leg and at Orthes serverely in the left thigh.’
Discharged in 1837 aged 47 1/2 .
A good 83rd medal
Naval General Service, 2 clasps, Stately 22 March 1808, 25 July Boat Service 1809, Pte. Royal Marines, unique name on the roll, for the destruction of the Danish 74-gun Prinds Christian Frederick in March 1808, and in the boats of the Princess Caroline on 25 July 1809, in a brutal engagement with four Russian gun-boats and an armed brig in the gulf of Finland where one of the Russian gun-boats fought to the last with every one of it's 44 crew killed or wounded 




