Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Captain H. A. Hudson, Royal Field Artillery, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War at the Fall of Singapore, 15 February 1942

1914 Star (71923 Tptr: H. A. Hudson. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (71923 Gnr. H. A. Hudson. R.A.); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (1042915 B.Q.M.Sjt. H. A. Hudson. R.A.) the Great War medals polished, good fine, the remainder very fine (7) £240-£280

Horace Archibald Hudson was born in Shoreditch on 21 December 1899 and attested for the Royal Artillery at Woolwich on 23 June 1913, aged 14 years. Disembarked at Le Havre as a 15 year-old Trumpeter 6 November 1914, he served on the Western Front as part of 45th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Present at the Battles of Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge and Festubert in May 1915, Hudson survived the Battle of the Somme and returned home to marry Miss Ella Alice Wheeler in June 1919. Posted to Belgaum in India, he was discharged from the army in December 1936.

Witnessing the growing instability in Europe, Hudson re-enlisted in Section ‘E’ of the Army Reserve on 17 October 1938. Appointed War Substantive R.S.M., he was discharged to a commission as Lieutenant and Quartermaster on 26 July 1941 and was sent to the Far East with the 80th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery. Captured by Imperial Japanese forces at the Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 he was held at Changi Camp in 1942, then Kenkasaki and Shirakawa Camps in Taiwan from 1942-45. Transferred to Fukuoka in the final weeks of the War, he was liberated on 2 September 1945. Returned home to his wife in England, he died at Staddiscombe in Devon on 22 January 1963.

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