bentley priory - Spink

THE BENTLEY PRIORY BATTLE OF BRITAIN TRUST APPEAL CHARITY AUCTION
THURSDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 2012
Commencing at 2.00 p.m.
All Sales are subject to the Conditions of Business printed at the back of this catalogue
Estimates
The estimated selling price of each lot is printed below the lot description and does not include the Buyer’s Premium.
Bidders should bear in mind that estimates are prepared well in advance of the sale and are not definitive.
They are subject to revision.
1
The Important and Outstanding C.B., C.B.E.,
Second War D.S.O., D.F.C. and Two Bars, Post-
War A.F.C. Group of Ten to Air Vice-Marshal F.
D. ‘Hawk Eyes’ Hughes, Royal Air Force, Who
Claimed His First Victories in Defiants During the
Battle of Britain, and Added to His Score in
Beaufighters in the Mediterranean and as a
Squadron C.O. in Mosquitos Over North-West
Europe; He Finished With A Personal Score of 18
Victories. As a Native of the Emerald Isle He Was
Second Only to ‘Paddy’ Finucane in Confirmed
Victories, and was Right On The Tail of John
‘Cat’s Eyes’ Cunningham As The Highest-Scoring
Night Fighter Ace of the Second World War
a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military
Division, Companion’s (C.B.) neck Badge, silver-gilt
and enamel, with neck riband, in Collingwood, London,
case of issue
b) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire,
2nd type, Military Division, Commander’s (C.B.E.)
neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband,
in Garrard, London, case of issue
c) Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., silver-gilt
and enamel, reverse of suspension bar officially dated
‘1945’, with integral top riband bar
d) Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse
officially dated ‘1941’, and additionally engraved
‘R.A.F.V.R. 264 Sqdn. Desmond Hughes 4th April’,
with Second Award Bar, reverse officially dated
‘1943’, and Third Award Bar, reverse officially dated
‘1943’
e) Air Force Cross, E.II.R., reverse officially dated
‘1954’
f) 1939-1945 Star, with Battle of Britain Bar
g) Air Crew Europe Star, with France and Germany
Bar
h) Africa Star, with North Africa 1942-43 Bar
i) Italy Star
j) War Medal, nearly extremely fine, mounted court
style as worn, with the following related items:
- The recipient’s related miniature awards
- The recipient’s Identity tags
- Bestowal document for the C.B., named to Air Vice-
Marshal Frederick Desmond Hughes, C.B.E., D.S.O.,
D.F.C., A.F.C., and dated 3.6.1972
- Bestowal document for the C.B.E., named to Group
Captain Frederick Desmond Hughes, D.S.O., D.F.C.,
A.F.C., and dated 1.1.1962
- Bestowal document for the D.S.O., named to Wing
Commander F.D. Hughes, D.F.C., and dated
23.3.1945
Air Vice-Marshal F.D. Hughes
- Commission appointing Frederick Desmond Hughes
a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve, dated 7.10.1939
- (3) R.A.F. Pilot’s Flying Log Books, covering the
periods 25.10.1938-7.7.1944; 8.7.1944-30.12.1965;
and 19.1.1966-26.5.1972 respectively
- R.A.F. Instrument Pilot Rating Card
- The recipient’s Royal Aero Club Gliding Certificate
- The recipient’s unfinished Memoirs, together with
his various combat reports
- Letter to the recipient from the Rt. Hon. Roy
Mason, Secretary of State for Defence, on the occasion
of the recipient’s retirement, dated 4.6.1974
- A selection of portrait and group photographs, many
from his time at R.A.F. College Cranwell
- Battle of Britain Memorial Dagger, by Wilkinson,
London, the blade inscribed ‘Air Vice-Marshal F.D.
Hughes, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., M.A.’,
complete with scabbard, in wooden presentation box
(lot)
£60,000-80,000
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