Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Urban District of Llandudno Memorial Plaque 1914-19, 189mm, bronze, featuring an angel with high-relief wings, holding a laurel branch over the shield of the Urban District and the engraved name, ‘H. Darrel [sic] Hughes, Lieut. R.W.F.’, with the legend, ‘Pro Deo Rege et Patria 1914-1919’, mounted on a wooden base, 300mm x 30omm, good very fine and a rare and attractive piece £300-£400

Hubert Darrell Hughes was born in Portmadoc, Carnarvonshire, on 4 September 1897, the son of the Rev. Llewelyn Hughes, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant from the Royal Military College into the 3rd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He served attached to the 8th Battalion during the Great War in Mesopotamia from 5 July 1916, and was killed in action on 14 January 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

At the time of Hughes’ death, his father, the Rev. Canon Llewelyn Hughes, was Rector of Llandudno, hence his entitlement to the Plaque.

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