Colonel Wilfrid Selwyn Kent-Hughes

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Photograph B01041
Service number 60, VX26600
Ranks Held Captain, Colonel, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, Sergeant, Temporary Colonel
Birth Date 1895-06-12
Birth Place Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Death Place Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Kew
Final Rank Colonel
Service Australian Army
Units
  • 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade
  • 8 Australian Division
  • 8 Australian Division Administrative Headquarters AIF Malaya
  • 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment
  • Australian Army Medical Corps
  • Headquarters Australian Imperial Force
  • Staff
Places
Conflicts/Operations
  • First World War, 1914-1918
  • Second World War, 1939-1945

Collection items

    Media


    Studio portrait of Major Wilfred Selwyn Kent Hughes MC, Australian Light Horse from Toorak, ...

    Document


    Wallet 1 of 6 - Administrative papers relating to appointments and promotions of AIF while prisoners of the Japanese, 1942-1946

    Wallet 2 of 6 - Administrative papers relating to appointments and promotions of AIF while prisoners of the Japanese, 1945-1946

    Wallet 3 of 6 - Administrative papers relating to appointments and promotions of AIF while prisoners of the Japanese, 1945-1946

    Wallet 4 of 6 - Administrative papers relating to appointments and promotions of AIF while prisoners of the Japanese, 1942-1946

    Wallet 5 of 6 - Administrative papers relating to appointments and promotions of AIF while prisoners of the Japanese, 1942-1946

    Wallet 6 of 6 - Administrative papers relating to appointments and promotions of AIF while prisoners of the Japanese, 1942-1946

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Date of birth 1895-06-12
Date of embarkation 19/10/1914
Date of enlistment 17/08/1914
Date of recommendation honour or award 12/1915
Date of enlistment 01/05/1915
Date of embarkation 18/05/1915
Date of embarkation 17/05/1915
Date of recommendation honour or award 1916
Date returned to Australia 11/03/1916
Date of recommendation honour or award 29/04/1916
Date of recommendation honour or award 19/06/1917
Date of recommendation honour or award 06/09/1918
Date of fate 30/01/1920
Date of death 31/07/1970
date of death

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