Certificate number 9267 issued by Military District 2 to 800114 Pte. C. Hughes, 134th Battalion, CEF following the completion of a school of instruction at Niagara-on-the-Lake, 4 July 1916 and qualifying Pte Hughes for the rank of Corporal. Hughes was transferred once in England to the 4th Battalion and suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh in the last 100 days of the war.
Also in the Hughes donation is: a) postcard from Toronto, Ontario, b) a postcard from Surrey, England, c) Dispersal Certificate, d) Pension final statement 1931, e) Returned Soldiers’ Insurance receipt 1923, f) letter from Pension Commissioners, 1919, g) two blackened 134th Battalion badges – collar and headgear sizes.