Air Vice-Marshal Frederick Desmond Hughes, CB, CBE, DSO, DFC & Two Bars, AFC (6 June 1919 – 11 January 1992) was a Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding at No.
Educated at Campbell College, Belfast and Pembroke College, Cambridge, Hughes joined the Royal Air Force as a cadet at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in September 1939 and was commissioned in October 1939.
264 Squadron during the Battle of Britain and became an accomplished night fighter being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in April 1941,[2] a bar to his Distinguished Flying Cross in April 1943[3] and a second bar to his Distinguished Flying Cross in September 1943.
[1] He went on to be Air Officer Administration at Headquarters RAF Flying Training Command in September 1966, Air Officer Commanding at No.
18 Group in October 1968 and Commandant of the RAF College in March 1970.