Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 63

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 GODFREY BURNSIDE HUDSON (Sec Lt)

Roll Number 1396 Died 18:04:1918

Lef SES 1916

Set / House A

Arrive SES 1911

Where GIVENCHY, FRANCE Serving with 3RD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 20

Buried Gorre British & Indian Cemetery, Calais, France Remembered The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born 1898 in Tiverton, Devon, one of two SES brothers, the sons of a clergyman., both of whom would be lost in the war. Despite a long School career, not much is recorded about him, he was in the Middle Moderns Form. He left the School during the war and went to Sandhurst College in May 1916 and was commissioned in the 3rd Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment the following November. By February 1917 he had joined his regiment in Belgium and was involved in the last stages of the Battle of Passchendale Ridge ‘which was a horrible struggle in impassable mud, often more than waist deep’ (Chronicle). He was killed in an advanced post at Givenchy, France where every man was a killed before it fell in April 1918. He died a few days before his brother.