467 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force, and within five months made such a favourable impression that he was recommended for an officer's commission.
Hughes initially agreed to hand out what he had been told were Red Cross forms to his fellow prisoners, believing that the data was to be used to help contact the POWs' families.
They were in fact forms designed to elicit more personal data than the "name, rank and serial number" which was all that PoWs (Prisoners of War) were required to reveal, which would later be used in interrogations.
Evidence gathered by MI9, which maintained secret links with Allied PoWs, later suggested that Hughes had also been writing anti-Jewish propaganda for broadcast.
Hughes' story was retold in the play Radio Cymru written by Wiliam Owen Roberts, which was produced by the Dalier Sylw theatre company.