![]() Hughes loved hunting and fishing, swimming, and picnicking with his family. Hughes noted, "my first six years shaped everything". The stories of Flanders fields filled Hughes's childhood imagination (later described in the poem "Out"). He was one of just 17 men of his regiment to return from the Dardanelles Campaign (1915–16). He narrowly escaped being killed when a bullet lodged in a pay book in his breast pocket. Hughes's father, William, a joiner, was of Irish descent and had enlisted with the Lancashire Fusiliers in the First World War and fought at Ypres. Most of the more recent generations of his family had worked in the clothing and milling industries in the area. One of his mother's ancestors had founded the Little Gidding community. ![]() ![]() Hughes's sister Olwyn Marguerite Hughes (1928–2016) was two years older and his brother Gerald (1920–2016) was ten years older. ![]() Hughes was born at 1 Aspinall Street, in Mytholmroyd in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to William Henry (1894–1981) and Edith (née Farrar) Hughes (1898–1969), and raised among the local farms of the Calder Valley and on the Pennine moorland. ![]() Hughes's birthplace in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire ![]()
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