Born: 1897, Norfolk
Died: 31 July 1918, Sheffield Hospital
Buried: Upper Chapel, Idle
Address: 22 North Street, Thackley
Parents: Nicholas William & Sara Ann
Spouse:
Siblings: Jesse, Alice, George, Lucy
Occupation:
Organisations/clubs:
Military
Rank: Pte
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour: Holy Trinity, Idle
Children:
Regiment: Duke of Wellington’s
Albert Hudson
Albert was born around
1897 in Norfolk, the second
of five children of Essex
Born Nicholas William
Hudson and his Norfolk-
born wife, Sarah Ann, who
appear to have moved to
Idle sometime around 1900
when their third child, Alice
was born.
On 9 August 1918, the Shipley
Times & Express reported:
Military honours were accorded on
Saturday to the funeral at the Upper
Chapel, Idle, of Pte Albert Hudson,
Duke of Wellington’s West Riding
Regt, a son of Mr and Mrs Hudson
of 22 North Street, Thackley, and
who died from wounds at a
Sheffield hospital on 31st
July, aged 24 years and 11
months.
A gun carriage, a Union
Jack, and four bearers were
supplied from Bradford
Moor Barracks.
The deceased, who was a
member of the Idle P.M.
Young Men’s Class, had
been with the colours over two
years and last May he was severely
shelled in both legs, one of which
received 17 fragments. He was at
Buxton hospital for a time and was
then removed to Sheffield.
His brother, who is at the front, has
been wounded on two occasions.
And in a cruel twist of fate we
read on 27 September:
The sympathy of the district will
be with Mr and Mrs Hudson of 22
North Street, Thackley, in their
double bereavement through the
war, they having lost a son on 31st
July and another on 23rd August.
Pte Albert Hudson, Duke of
Wellington’s Regt, died of wounds
at the Sheffield hospital on the last
day in July and his brother, Pte
Jesse Hudson, previously twice
wounded, fell in action 23 days
later.
And as we can see from the stone
in the Upper Chapel burial
ground, the family lost their third
son Ernest two years after the war
ended.
