Pte William Hudson
4 Pte William Hudson
35101 10th Essex Age: 20 Died: 06-Nov-17 Listed: Great Dunham Memorial Buried: Dunhallow ADS Cemetery Born in 1878, William Hudson was baptised in Great Dunham on 19th May. His mother and father were Frances and Edward Hudson, a farm labourer. In 1881 the whole family lived in Great Dunham. The couple had seven children at the time. The eldest child, Mary, was 20 years old at this stage and William only 2 years old with his younger sister being only one year old. Ten years later the family lived in Low Street, Great Dunham with five of their children including William. By 1901 the parents lived in North Street, with only older brother John living with them by this stage. By 1911, William was back living with Frances and Edward in Great Dunham and was listed as being single and a farm labourer, Age 32.
Soldiers Died records that William originally joined the Norfolk Regiment in Norwich. He was transferred to the Essex Regiment and died towards the end of the Passchendaele Battle on the 6th November 1917. William died in action, the 10th Essexs were in carrying out improvements in ”Baboon” and “Coldstream” Camps behind the front line. He was buried near to where he fell, just North of the Yser River, just to the North of Ypres near the town of Boesinghe. In the summer of 1919 he was exhumed and moved to his current resting place at Dunhallow, a few miles away. Dunhallow is very near Essex Farm where John McCrae wrote the famous poem “In Flanders Fields” John Hudson, William’s older brother also joined the 3rd Norfolks in 1914. Biography written by Heydon and Nicky Stockman Trench Map of the Northern Ypres Salient in 1917.
The grey dot on the trench map below marks the site where Hudson was originally buried near where he fell, near "Baboon Lane" before his body was moved after the war. |
Dunhallow ADS Cemetery
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