He increased his score in the Battle of Britain despite being wounded on both the 16th and 18th of August. After the latter incident he was away from the squadron for just over a month, during which he was awarded the DFC.
Hugo became a Flight Commander in September 1941 and was awarded a bar to his DFC in November. In that month he took command of No 41 Squadron and continued to shoot down enemy aircraft. He was made Tangmere Wing Leader in April 1942 and shortly afterwards baled out, wounded, into the Channel, from where he was picked up by an air sea rescue launch. He was awarded the DSO in May.
After a posting to HQ No 11 Group, Hugo was appointed Wing Leader at Hornchurch on 18 July 1942, but on 31 August he was posted to lead No 322 Wing in North Africa. On 12 November he shared a Do 217 over Bougie, Algeria, on the 13th he probably destroyed a Ju 88, on the 15th a probable He 111, on the 16th and 18th destroyed Ju 88s and on the 21st, 26th and 28th Bf 109s. Further victories followed, with a second bar to the DFC being gazetted on 16 February 1943.
Hugo was later seconded to Marshal Tolbukin’s 2nd Ukranian Army, then moving from Romania to Austria. After returning to the UK, Hugo was posted to the Central Fighter Establishment.
Hugo retired from the RAF on February 19 1950 as a Squadron Leader, retaining the rank of Group Captain.
He became a cattle farmer in what was then Tanganyika (now Tanzania), but returned to South Africa in 1971 after the government of Tanzania took the farm. He died in South Africa in 1986. His portrait was done by Cuthbert Orde in February 1941.
