Roll of Honour 2023

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

P AGE 65

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

Name THOMAS HEYLYN HUDSON (Capt.)

Lef SES 1902

Roll Number 956 Died 13:10:1915

Set / House A

Arrive SES 1897

Where HULLACH, FRANCE

Age 26

Serving with 5TH, ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT

Buried Maroc British Cemetery, Grenay, France

Remembered Loos Memorial, Las-De-Calais, France, The St. Edward’s School Chapel and The Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born 1889 in Wolborough, Newton Abbot, Devon, the second of four sons of the School’s fourth Warden, The Reverend Thomas Hudson. One of his brothers was also lost in the war. He had a long, if undistinguished School career, ending in the Upper IVth Form. On leaving he held a teaching post at Blandford College, then began to read for Holy Orders and went up to Selwyn College, Cambridge in 1908. There he rowed in the Lent Boat of 1909 and the VIII of 1911, becoming Captain of the crew at Henley that year. He also played for the College Rugby Football XV and took a 3rd Class Degree in Modern History in 1910, while continuing to read for Holy Orders at Westcott House, Cambridge. In August 1914 he enlisted in The Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment) at Colchester, commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. He was promoted to Lieutenant in May 1915, then again to Captain and Adjutant in June and on the Western Front by July 1915. He was reported ‘wounded and missing’ in the heavy fighting around Hullach, France but his body was not recovered for burial until 1925, then he was re-buried in The Maroc British Cemetery, Grenay, France.