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VC1010 Charles Edward Hudson
Name Charles Edward Hudson No.
VC Issue No. 1009 Awards VC
Regiment Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment commanding 11th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters
Later Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regiment
Now 2nd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment
Rank VC Won Temporary Lieutenant Colonel
Rank End Of Career Major-General
Place Of Birth Derby, Derbyshire, England
Place Of Death St Mary's Hospital, St Mary's, Scilly Isles, England
Buried/Location Ashes St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Denbury, near Newton Abbot, Devon, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 11 July 1918
VC Presented 18 September 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Denbury, near Newton Abbot, Devon, England
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Sherbourne School, Sherbourne, Dorset
Named on Honours Board, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Surrey
By The Way…
Before the war, he was a Rubber Planter in Sri Lanka
VC Held By
Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) Museum, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
BORN 29 May 1892
DIED 4 April 1959 AGE 66
VC Won 15 June 1918 AGE 26
Place VC Won Near Asiago, Italy
War/Campaign First World War 1918
