Family correspondence, 1914-70

Component identifier:

Series 1

Content Summary:

Kent Hughes enlisted in the AIF and left Australia with the Australian Light Horse for the Middle East (Sinai, Palestine, Syria and Gallipoli) on 18 October 1914. At the end of the War, he went to Oxford to take up the Rhodes scholarship that had been awarded to him in 1915. In 1940 he enlisted in the AIF and served in Singapore and Malaya. In February 1942 Kent Hughes was taken prisoner and was sent to POW camps in Singapore, Formosa and Manchuria.

The series comprises Kent Hughes' correspondence, including some transcripts, with his father and other members of his family, written from the Middle East and Oxford. There are also letters from Lady Kent Hughes and their children (written while Kent Hughes was in the POW camps), letters from his parents-in-law (Mr and Mrs R. C. Kerr) and other members of the family.

Kent Hughes' letters to his wife can be found in Series 24.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was donated to the National Library, in several instalments between 1973 and 1991, by Lady Kent Hughes and her daughters, Mrs Janet Derham, Mrs Margaret Sasse and Dr Mary Lou Sheil.

Names:

Kent Hughes, Lady

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