Major General Ronald Laurence Hughes

image: BUC/71/0023/HQ image: BUC/71/0023/HQ
Photograph BUC/71/0023/HQ
Service number 72, DX852
Ranks Held Lieutenant Colonel, Major, Brigadier
Birth Date 17 September 1920
Birth Place Australia: South Australia, Adelaide
Death Date 02 February 2003
Final Rank Major General
Service Royal Australian Infantry
Units
  • 2/3 Battalion
  • 1 Australian Task Force Vietnam
  • Darwin Mobile Force
  • 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment
  • 1st Australian Task Force
  • 2/3rd Australian Infantry Battalion
Place Adelaide
Conflicts/Operations
  • Korea, 1950-1953
  • Second World War, 1939-1945
  • Vietnam, 1962-1975
Gazettes Published in London Gazette in 1953-05-26
Published in London Gazette in 1969-01-28
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1953-06-04
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1968-11-21

Collection items

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    Headquarters, Australia. Portrait of 72 Brigadier Ron Laurence Hughes CBE DSO of Stafford, Qld. ...

    Brigadier Ron Hughes of Stafford Park, QLD, 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Commander, uses one ...

    Brigadier Ron Hughes of Stafford Park, Qld (left), 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Commander, ...

    Australia's two Army men in Vietnam, the Force Commander, Major General A. L. MacDonald of ...

    The Commander of the Australian Force Vietnam (AFV), Major General A. L. MacDonald of Canberra, ...

    Collection related to 2784336 Signalman Stuart Lindsay Weller, 104 Signal Squadron, and his service in Vietnam between 1967 and 1968.

Rolls

  • Honours and Awards:

    Unit
    1st Australian Task Force
    Conflict
    Vietnam, 1962-1975
    Rank
    Brigadier
    London Gazette
    28 January 1969 on page 1007 at position 1
    Commonwealth Gazette
    21 November 1968 on page 6517 at position 2

  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Conflict
    Korea, 1950-1953

  • Honours and Awards:

    Unit
    3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment
    Conflict
    Korea, 1950-1953
    Rank
    Lieutenant Colonel
    London Gazette
    26 May 1953 on page 2909 at position 9
    Commonwealth Gazette
    04 June 1953 on page 1549 at position 2

  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Conflict
    Korea, 1950-1953

Timeline

Date of birth 17 September 1920
Other 1939 Graduated from the Royal Military College.
Other units 1939 - 1945 2/3rd Battalion.
Date of honour or award 1952 Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.
Other units 1952 - 1953 Commanding Officer 3rd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, Korea.
Other 1964 - 1966 Services Attache Indonesia.
Other 1966 - 1967 Commander 6 Task Force.
Other units 1967 - 1968 Commander 1st Australian Task Force, South Vietnam.
Date of honour or award 1968 Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Other 1970 - 1974 Director Military Operations and Plans Army HQ.
Other units 1974 - 1976 Commander 1 Division.
Other 1976 - 1977 Chief of the Reserve, Army Headquarters.
Other 1977 Retired.
Date of death 02 February 2003

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