Ancestors in the Hughes family...

[Frankvanderveen]

Looking for my ancestors in the Hughes family.

For myself and my father I have been looking for my grandfather, his father. My father born on 15-1-1946 in Arnhem is most probably the product of the celebration during the liberation of Arnhem exactly 9 months earlier.

After donating DNA I did a lot of research with the results on Ancestry.com. Meanwhile after several contacts with pedigree owners on Ancestry who helped me I was able to make some nice steps.

There are clear indications that I have to search in the pedigree of Joseph Albert Hughes (born 1863 in Earnly, Sussex) married to Georgina Louisa Bullen (born 1866 in Dorking).

In that line my attention is still focused on two men. The first is John Roy 'Jack' Hughes (1920 Winnipeg - 2011 Winnipeg) and the second Albert Allen Hughes (1919 Winnipeg - 2000 Leicester).

Both were active during the second world war and of John I am almost sure he served in the RAF. Probably Albert as well.

Arnhem was liberated in 1945 mainly by the Canadian army. With the help of English units. The troop movement and which units were where are known to me.

My first challenge is to find out if these two men or either of them were involved in the liberation of Arnhem in order to further refine my hypothesis.
Next to that I am looking for living (direct) relatives of both men to be able to contact them. In the hope that they can help me further. Preferably with a dna test to give a definite answer to a question that has been hanging over our family for a lifetime.

Thanks in advance for al possible help.
Regards Frank

[Pam Downes]

Hello Frank,

Welcome to British-Genealogy.

Service records for personnel who served in the British forces after 1922 are still held by the Ministry of Defence. To obtain the records you need to know either the birthdate or service number, have a copy of the death certificate, send a cheque for thirty pounds for each person, and unless you are next of kin (which you can't pove) or have the permission of the next-of-kin you will only receive basic details because the person died within the last twenty-five years. You will also need a lot of patience because it will likely take a minimum of six months for you to receive anything. For further details see
https://www.british-genealogy.com/fo...757#post585757

However, as, judging by your post, John and Albert seem to be Canadian I would have thought it more likely that they joined the Canadian forces (unless they were living in England at the start of the war).
As in the UK, Canadian service records for WW2 personnel are not available online. Further details can be found at
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discov...uction.aspx#a1

Pam

[christanel]

I see there is a photo of John Roy 'Jack' Hughes 1920 - 2011 on a public tree on ancestry and he is in uniform. Do you have this photo? if so you could post it on here and someone may be able to tell us which regiment he was in and which country.
As it is a head and shoulders photo the only helpful bit is the cap badge. I wonder if it can be enlarged?
You need a URL address for your photo to upload it to Brit-Gen. If you don't have one this is how you can do it.
the first step is to make sure that you are in Go Advanced mode on the Brit-Gen thread where you want to place the photo. Click on the picture frame in the row of images above the reply box. (6 from the RH side. The box that appears requires a URL address.
You have to upload your photo to a free site which will provide a URL address.
I use Postimage which is very simple.
On the home page of Postimage click on 'Choose images' then find and click on the file you want to upload where you have the photo stored on your computer eg Pictures. Then click on the particular folder that holds your picture and Open it. Choose your photo, click on it and click on Open. You are now taken back to the Postimage page where you are given a choice of 9 links. Click on the URL 'Hotlink for forum' Now right click on the URL address and then click on Copy. Go back to the reply box on the Brit-Gen thread and in the URL box right click on your mouse and from the menu click on paste. The URL for your photo is now ready to be posted on the forum along with any information you hae typed in to accompany it.
I hope I have explained this clearly enough for you to have a go. There are other free sites from which to upload images but not being very tech savvy I found the one above the easiest to use.

Have you tried contacting the owners of the trees?

Christina