Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Hughes was killed when Handley Page Halifax V LK957 MP-H of 76 Squadron was lost on a mission to Mannheim. The Halifax crashed at Zotzbach, some 15 miles north east of Mannheim, with the loss of six of the seven crew.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3, page 383
He is remembered in Blaydon on B111.08
