Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. (P.O. D. L. Hudson J-23800) good very fine £60-80

Pilot Officer Donald Leslie Hudson was from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He was killed on active service on 7 January 1943, aged 29 years. He served with No. 5 Bomber Recce Squadron out of Gander, Newfoundland. His Canso aircraft (No.9737) was outward bound on an anti-submarine patrol when it crashed and burned 3 miles south of Gander Lake, Newfoundland. Hudson was the son of Joseph and Ellen Hudson of Saskatoon and husband of Vera M. Hudson of Innisfail, Alberta. With some copied research.