Captain David James Hughes DFC (16 April 1899 – 21 June 1955) was a Welsh First World War flying ace credited with five aerial victories.
[3][1][4] Hughes was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps as a temporary second lieutenant (on probation) on the General List on 12 August 1917,[5] and was confirmed in his rank on 30 October.
He ran up a total of two enemy aircraft destroyed, two driven down out of control, and one captured, between 8 August and 23 October 1918.
[7] His award of the Distinguished Flying Cross was gazetted in November 1918, his citation reading: Hughes left the RAF, being transferred to the unemployed list, on 28 January 1919.
[9] He immigrated to the United States in 1929, working as a cotton broker.