Life story: Robert Arthur Hudson | Lives of the First World War

Type	Name
First Names	Robert Arthur
Initials	RA
Last Name	Hudson,
Source	7530971

Gender	Source
Male

Address	Country	Type	Date	Source
Highfield, Headingley, Leeds	United Kingdom	their own address	known 1917

Service	Unit	Section	Rank
British Army	West Yorkshire Regiment	3rd Volunteer Battalion	Second Lieutenant
British Army	West Yorkshire Regiment	3rd Volunteer Battalion	Lieutenant
British Army	West Yorkshire Regiment	3rd Volunteer Battalion	Captain
British Army	West Yorkshire Regiment	7th Battalion (Leeds Rifles)	Captain
British Army	West Yorkshire Regiment	1/7th Battalion (Leeds Rifles)	Major
British Army	West Yorkshire Regiment	1/6th Battalion	Temporary Lieutenant Colonel
British Army	West Yorkshire Regiment	1/8th Battalion (Leeds Rifles)	Lieutenant Colonel

Award	Type	Source
1914/15 Star	First World War Campaign/Service Medal
British War Medal	First World War Campaign/Service Medal
DSO	British Award/Decoration
Distinguished Service Order (DSO)	British Award/Decoration
Victory Medal	First World War Campaign/Service Medal

Name	Relationship	Dates	Source
Hannah	mother
Robert Hudson	father

Name	Relationship	Dates	Source
Mary Vere Senior	wife

Title	Connected by	More information
Medal Index Card
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records	Imperial1
Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919 Transcription	M2740

Reference	Connected by	More information
London Gazette Entry - Commission (1898)	M2740
London Gazette Entry - Promotion (1898)	M2740
London Gazette Entry - Promotion (1905)	M2740
London Gazette Entry - Appointment (1908)	M2740
London Gazette Entry - Promotion (1913)	M2740
London Gazette Entry - Award of Distinguished Service Order (1916)	M2740
London Gazette Entry - Promotion (1916)	M2740
London Gazette Entry - Appointment (1917)	M2740
London Gazette Entry - Notice of Death (1917)	M2740
London Gazette Entry - Appointment (1917)	M2740

Title	Connected by	More information
Lt Col R A Hudson DSO	M2740
Distinguished Service Order	Vincent96527
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium 1	Vincent96527
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium 2	Vincent96527
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium 3	Vincent96527
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium 4	Vincent96527
1914-15 Star	Vincent96527

ID: 2002485

Reference: WO372/10

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal index cards were created by the Army Medal Office towards the end of the First World War. They record the medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim.

UPP: GBM/MCI/2004776

Credit: © The National Archives

ID: 6975669

Title: Lt Col R A Hudson DSO

Description: Image from Tempest, E V, History of the Sixth Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, Vol. 1, 1/6th Bn.

Connected by: M2740

ID: 7530971

Reference: CWGCCASUALIWM

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records

Description: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) commemorate First World War servicemen and women and members of some civilian organisations who died before 31 August 1921 while in Commonwealth military service or of causes attributable to service.

Connected by: Imperial1

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/870618

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Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

ID: 7966743

Title: London Gazette Entry - Commission (1898)

Description: 3rd Volunteer Battalion, the Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), Robert Arthur Hudson, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 11th May, 1898

Connected by: M2740

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26965/page/2895/data.pdf
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ID: 7966744

Title: London Gazette Entry - Promotion (1898)

Description: 3rd Volunteer Battalion, the Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), Second Lieutenant R. A. Hudson to be Lieutenant. Dated 26th October, 1898.

Connected by: M2740

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27017/page/6238/data.pdf
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ID: 7966745

Title: London Gazette Entry - Promotion (1905)

Description: 3rd Volunteer Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), Lieutenant R. A. Hudson to be Captain. Dated 4th January, 1905.

Connected by: M2740

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27750/page/30/data.pdf
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ID: 7966747

Title: London Gazette Entry - Appointment (1908)

Description: 7th and 8th Battalions, Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) (Leeds Rifles); the undermentioned officers,from the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), are appointed to the battalion, with rank and precedence as in the Volunteer Force. Dated 1st April, 1908... Captain Robert Arthur Hudson

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28180/page/6949/data.pdf
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ID: 7966758

Title: London Gazette Entry - Promotion (1913)

Description: 7th and 8th Battalions (Leeds Rifles), The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment); Captain Robert A. Hudson to be Major. Dated 7th April, 1913

Connected by: M2740

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28736/page/4971/data.pdf
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ID: 7966760

Title: London Gazette Entry - Award of Distinguished Service Order (1916)

Description: His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the undermentioned Honours and Rewards for distinguished service in the Field, with effect from 1st January, 1916... To be Companions of the Distinguished Service Order... Major Robert Arthur Hudson, West Yorkshire Regiment, Territorial Force

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29438/supplement/573/data.pdf
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ID: 7966761

Title: London Gazette Entry - Promotion (1916)

Description: West Yorkshire Regt.—Maj. R. A. Hudson, West Yorks. Regt., to be Lt.-Col. (temp.). 1st Aug. 1916

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29764/page/9359/data.pdf
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ID: 7966764

Title: London Gazette Entry - Appointment (1917)

Description: West Yorkshire Regt... Maj. (actg. Lt.-Col.) R. A. Hudson, D.S.O., relinquishes the actg. rank of Lt.- Col. on ceasing to command a Bn. 22nd July 1917

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30345/supplement/10853/data.pdf
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ID: 7966766

Title: London Gazette Entry - Notice of Death (1917)

Description: Lt.-Colonel Robert Arthur Hudson, Deceased... Notice is hereby given, that all creditors and other persons having any claims or demands against the estate of Robert Arthur Hudson, of the 1/8th West Yorkshire Regiment, and of Highfield, Headingley, Leeds, deceased (who was killed in action on the 9th October, 1917), are hereby required to send particulars, in writing, of their claims or demands to us, the undersigned, the Solicitors for the executors (Mrs. Mary Vere Hudson and Messrs. Joseph John Henry Stansfield and Percy -Hudson) of the will... Dated this 27th day of November, 1917. DTBB and '.GO., 6; Butts-court, Leeds, Solicitors for the Executors.

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30409/page/12598/data.pdf
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ID: 7966768

Title: London Gazette Entry - Appointment (1917)

Description: West Yorkshire Regt.—Maj. R. A. Hudson, D.S.O. (since killed in action), to be actg. Lt.-Col. whilst comdg. Bn. 9th Sept. 1917

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30411/page/12656/data.pdf
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ID: 7966769

Reference: wwisd

Title: Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919 Transcription

Connected by: M2740

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1034817

ID: 9211321

Title: Distinguished Service Order

Description: Distinguished Service Order, similar to the one which would have been awarded to Robert Hudson.