Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 60

W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name ARTHUR HENSLEY HUDSON (Capt)

Arrive SES 1903

Lef SES 1909

Roll Number 1144 Died 31:07:1917

Set / House D

Where GLENCORES WOOD, HOOGE, BEL Serving with 6TH, ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 25

Buried Hooge Crater Cemetery, Ieper, Belgium Remembered

War Memorial at Great Shefford, Bedfordshire, Keble College, Oxford Memorial, The Wendover War Memorial, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque), The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born Newton Abbot, Devon 1892, the eldest of five SES brothers, son of the third St. Edward’s School Warden, The Reverend Thomas William Hudson. One of his brothers was also killed in this war. At the School for six years he was a member of the Cricket XI in 1909 and the Rugby Football XV in 1908. He was in the VIth Form. After leaving the School he worked at the Calico Printing Works at Whaley Bridge in 1910 and a year later went up to Manchester University to read for a degree, then in 1912 moving to Keble College, Oxford where he remained until 1913. While at the University he played Rugby Football for the University (No Blue), also for Harlequins RFC and Hampshire. In August 1914 he joined the war effort, commissioned in the Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire) Regiment and by March 1916, after a year in the trenches, he was promoted to Captain. During the Somme Offensive he was wounded and in September 1916 he was wounded again, this time in the head by shrapnel and returned to a Birmingham Hospital for treatment. He was Mentioned in Dispatches in June 1917. He was killed at the end of July 1917 at Hooge, Ypres ‘sitting in a trench when the bullet came’ (Chronicle). His brother Noel had seen him shortly before ‘going forward in fine form, as brave as a lion. I warned him to beware, as where he was going was extremely dangerous’.