LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Peter Roger Forrest HUGHES
Service No: 412145
Born: Darlinghurst NSW, 4 February 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 June 1941
Unit: No. 12 Squadron
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 12 Squadron Wirraway aircraft A20-503), Pine Creek NT, 3 October 1942, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Adelaide River War Cemetery NT
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Roger Forrest Hughes and Eileen Ira Sara Hughes, of Bowral, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 100, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: University of Sydney World War II Roll of Honour, Camperdown NSW
On 3 October 1943, Wirraway A20-503 crashed at Pine Creek and both crew members were killed. Those crew members were:
Sergeant Stanislaus Vincent Corcoran (35123) (Gunner)
Pilot Officer Peter Roger Forrest Hughes (412145) (Pilot)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9845, 195
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line
Bibliography:
Ilbery, P.L.T. (Peter Leslie Thomas) (422957) Hatching an Air Force: 2SFTS, 5SFTS, 1BFTS Uranquinty and Wagga Wagga, Banner Books Maryborough QLD 4650, 2002