Source: April 1916 casualty.
Family Search: When Private Arthur Hudson was born on 28 September 1888, in Skipton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Marmaduke Hudson, was 43 and his mother, Margaret Booth, was 40. He immigrated to Canada in 1914 and lived in Skipton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as tinsmith. He died on 12 April 1916, in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 27.
Three London men killed and nine wounded is the official casualty report of last night and this morning from Ottawa. In addition there are many others in the list from Western Ontario. No less than three of Windsor’s sons are mentioned killed in action.
The Windsor men are Sergt. Reg. Fendley, Corp. Jon. Page [This may be a typographic error. No soldier by the name of Page died in April 1916] and Pte. Arthur Hudson. The two first named enlisted and went to the front as privates, but won promotion before they met their death. The relatives of all are in the old land.
In the list of wounded is Lieut. Jas. Henry Lovett of Ayr.
London Free Press: April 27, 1916
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
Leave a comment