Biography

Mr Hughes perished in September 1921. He went missing from a stock camp in the district. Following two searches for over a hundred miles down the Strzlecki Track by Mounted Constable Peter Victory, the search was abandoned after one month. A returned soldier, Hughes had gone cattle droving at the end of 1921 and disappeared from the camp. He had not been heard of since. Hughes had been in receipt of a military pension, which had been stopped. An appeal was made on behalf of Joseph Henry Reading, an Executor to the Will, that the Court should direct that William George Hughes had died on or about 6 October 1921. Affidavits produced showed that Hughes' tracks had been followed, that he was evidently in search of water, and that his horses had been lost. The application to swear death was granted.