Kent Ryder HUGHES [4238]

  General Notes:

1979/30004 (NZ Death) Hughes Kent Ryder 30 March 1915

The London Gazette, 27 August 1940
The undermentioned Acting Pilot Officers on probation are confirmed on their appointments and graded as Pilot Officers: . . . Kent Ryder HUGHES, (43287 ). . . .

The London Gazette, 15 August 1941
The undermentioned Pilot Officers are promoted to the war substantive rank of Flying Officer: -
. . . Kent Ryder HUGHES (43287) . . .

Cremation Records Rotorua
HUGHES, Kent Ryder - 64a Talbot Ave (no town name likely Como, Perth WA) - 63 years, died 19 Feb 1979, ashes returned to Grays FD in Rotorua to be sent "home to Australia" (3200).

  Research Notes:

Image Courtesy Johns Family Tree

  Other Records

• Death, 1979, Rotorua, New Zealand. Cremation Record - last entry

Kent married Isabella CARROLL [4239] [MRIN: 1395], daughter of Henry Joseph CARROLL [4240] and Mary Treza CONNELL [4241], on 3 May 1941 in Bullawayo, Southern Rhodesia. (Isabella CARROLL [4239] was born on 5 Jul 1916 in Gosnells, Perth, West Australia, died on 11 Mar 2004 and was buried on 15 Mar 2004 in Karrakatta, The Garden of Remembrance, EC.22.016..)

  Marriage Notes:

The West Australian Saturday 28 June 1941
Marriage Notice:
HUGHES-CARROLL.--On May 3, 1941, at Saint John's, Bulawayo Southern Rhodesia, by Squadron-Leader Padre T. Hankin, Pilot Officer Kent Ryder Hughes (R.A.F.), younger son of Mr. and Mrs. F.G. Hughes, of Kenwick, W.A., and Belle, only daughter of Mary and the late Sapper H. J. Carroll, of Gosnells. WA.