[1] During the First World War, he served in France and Egypt as a Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery.

[2][3] In October 1945, an antisemitic petition was drawn up, with the help of Waldron Smithers's (Conservative MP for Orpington) Fighting Fund for Freedom, by residents of Hampstead, requesting "that aliens of Hampstead should be repatriated to assure men and women of the Forces should have accommodation upon their return" from World War II.

[4] Hampstead's Conservative MP, Charles Challen, promised to give the petition his "unstinting support"[4][5] and he asked a number of questions in the House of Commons on behalf of the petitioners over the following months.

A. Hughes passed it to Challen who, "rather than repudiate the sponsors for their antisemitism", delivered it to Parliament.

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