Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 415
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[Newspaper clipping from the Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 10th May 1918]
Sydney Morning Herald
Friday 10th May 1918
PERSONAL.
Vice-Regal.
His Excellency the Governor received Brigadier-General Foster yesterday morning.
His Excellency and Lady Davidson entertained the following at lunch yesterday. – Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Holman, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Ryan (Queensland), Mr. and Mrs. Lee (Tasmania), Mr. and Mrs. Lefroy (W.A.), Mr. Lawson (Vic.), Mr. and Mrs. Peake (S.A.), Sir Elliot and Lady Lewis, Sir Richard and Lady Butler, Alderman J. Joynton Smith, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Theodore (Qld.), Mr. J. Garland, Mr. McPherson (Vic.), Messrs. Fuller and Gardiner, Mr. and Mrs. J. Fitzpatrick, Mr. and Mrs. Mowle, Miss Butler, and Mr Budge.
His Excellency the Governor, attended by Captains Stanham and Saltmarshe, were present at the Swords Club last night.
Dr. Eric Sinclair, Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals in New South Wales, has been appointed principal medical officer for the New South Wales Military District, and will enter upon his new duties immediately.
The "London Gazette" of March 18 announces that the name of Captain Geoffrey Forrest Hughes, M.C., of the Royal Flying Corps, younger son of Sir Thomas and Lady Hughes, has been brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War, "for valuable services rendered in connection with the war." His elder brother, Captain Roger Forrest Hughes, of the A.A.M.C., was killed in France in December, 1916.