Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 64

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 HENRY ERRIS HUDSON (Sec Lt)

Lef SES 1916

Roll Number 1444 Died 18:6:1918

Set / House E

Arrive SES 1913

Where HULLACH, WESTERN FRONT, FRANCE Serving with SHERWOOD FORESTERS

Age 20

Buried Dud Corner Cemetery, Loos Memorial Cemetery, Calais Remembered

War Memorial, St. Martin’s Church, Brabyns, Low Marple, Cheshire, The Loos Memorial, War Memorial Weston Under Penyard Hereford, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born in Bellmullet, Ireland in 1898, the son of a Royal Naval Commander, who, in a shortish time at the School achieved much. He was a School Prefect, Rugby Football XV and Rowing IV 1915 and 1916, and was in the VIth Form. He was the third eldest of four SES brothers.. On leaving the School he went to Sandhurst in 1916, and in 1917 was commissioned into the 9th Battalion Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment (The Sherwood Foresters) in September 1917. By November he was on the Western Front. He was wounded twice during a raid at Loos and was being carried back by two Corporals and a Private when the party came under enemy fire; the two corporals were killed and Hudson was wounded again, the Private was exhausted and had to leave Hudson behind in enemy territory. All this activity was observed from a forward observation post by Hudson’s brother William (also an OSE). Henry Hudson was awarded the Military Cross for this his final action, the citation reading: - ‘He had led his men splendidly and enabled at the party of his flank to gain their objective and capture a machine gun. Hit in three places, he was carried back to the enemy second line and there hit again; he insisted on being left at Hulluch. All ranks in his vicinity were inspired by his courage and devotion to duty’.