H. T. Hughes
Brigadier-General H. T. Hughes (c1870-1947)
1947 Obituary [1]
Chief Engineer of the Canadian Battle-fields Commission following the First World War, Brigadier-General H. T. Hughes, C.M.G., D.S.O., died recently at his home in Royal Oak, near Victoria., British Columbia., at the age of seventy-seven. General Hughes played an outstanding part in the construction of battle-field memorials of the 1914-18 war, including the famous Vimy Ridge memorial. He was born in England and came to Canada as a young man, where he was employed as an engineer in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. He joined the Royal Canadian Engineers in 1904, about the time of its formation, and, in the 1914-18 war, commanded the Royal Engineers, Second Canadian Division. At the conclusion of that war he was employed by the Canadian Government to make preliminary arrangements for the erection of eight battlefield memorials, commemorating the exploits of Canadian troops, and subsequently became Chief Engineer of the Canadian Battle-fields Commission.