Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) W. C. Hughes, No. 76 Squadron, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal, together with named condolence slip, card box of issue addressed to his widow at ‘Cuthbert Street, Blaydon-on-Tyne, Co. Durham’, and a silver-plated prize medal ‘N.R.A. King’s Trophy Competition’, extremely fine (4)

Sergeant William Charles Hughes was presumed killed in action, 18 November 1943, when his Halifax bomber failed to return from a bombing mission over Germany.