Detail victim

Name
Initials
Vorname
Place of birth St.Pauls, Cambridge
Land England
Last residence 136 Marylebone Road, London
Family Son of Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes and Mary Caroline Hughes, of Cambridge; two brothers, George Ravensworth and Alfred
Education Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge
Profession Architect
Extra info He joined the London Rowing Club after leaving Cambridge, and was one of its most successful oarsmen during the three seasons immediately preceding the war. In the season before the war Lieutenant Hughes took up sculling with success, winning the juniors at Molesey Regatta, and taking the junior-senior sculls at Kingston Regatta a week
later.

Rank Lieutenant
Medals Twice Mentioned in Despatches
Regiment and unit 53rd Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
Other data related to military career Commissioned in the K.R.R.C; Intelligence Corps in February 1917, attached to the R.F.C.

Wounded B6446 RE8, photographic patrol, shot up ground machine gun fire, 11.10 a.m.; crashed; Lewis was the pilot and was also killed (and is buried in Lijssenthoek).
Type of wounds Killed in action; brought in dead in n° 2 Can. CCS
Died at the age of 34
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVII - FF - 9