caption serviceyears branch commands relations death_date death_place birth_place allegiance awards battles birth_date rank image article_title name
brigadier external affairs , in south vietnam 1967 hughes with paul hasluck , the minister for 1937 -- 77 australian army 2nd royal australian regiment 6th task force 1st australian task force battalion 1st division , royal australian regiment 3rd battalion , james curnow hughes -lrb- brother -rrb- 02 february 2003 canberra , australian capital territory adelaide , south australia australia commander service order of the order of the british empire distinguished second world war korean war vietnam war 17 september 1920 major general 300px ronald lawrence hughes
 ronald lawrence hughes
ronald lawrence hughes

major general ronald lawrence hughes cbe , dso -lrb- 17 september 1920 -- 2 february 2003 -rrb- was a senior infantry officer in the australian army , seeing service during the second world war , the korean war and the vietnam war .
joining the australian army in 1937 , after graduating from the royal military college , duntroon in 1939 he served in new guinea and borneo during the second world war .
he commanded the 3rd battalion , royal australian regiment -lrb- 3 rar -rrb- during the static phase of the war in korea in 1952 -- 1953 .
later , he commanded the 1st australian task force -lrb- 1 atf -rrb- in south vietnam in 1967 -- 68 , during some of the heaviest fighting of the war experienced by the australians .
he subsequently filled a number of senior command and staff positions before retiring in 1977 .
