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Military service
Service number:
J/5483
Age:
25
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
412 Sqdn.
Birth:
June 7, 1916
Carleton Place, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 11, 1940
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
August 31, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Row 3. Grave 37.
Additional information
Son of William James Hughes and Mabel Vaughan (nee Strong) Hughes, of Carleton Place, Ontario. Brother of Freda, Morley and Cyril.
The Town of Carleton Place remembered Pilot Officer Hughes by naming a street for him.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer William Robert Hughes
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Grave Marker
Marker stone to P/O W. R. Hughes in Scopwick Church Burial Ground, Lincolnshire, England. The personal inscription reads: Tranquil you lie your knightly virtue proved your memory hallowed in the land you loved. -
Scopwick Church Burial Ground
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Photo of William Robert Hughes
In Memory of the members of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Robert Hughes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Robert Hughes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Robert Hughes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Robert Hughes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 33 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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