HUDSON, Harold Robert
| Service Number: | 46 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 July 1915, Transport Section |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 17 March 1877 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 1 October 1946, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-43. 57. |
| Memorials: | Cook's Hill Superior Public School |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 46, 30th Infantry Battalion, Transport Section | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Sergeant, 46, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Sergeant, 46, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 17 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 46, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, Transport Sergeant |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
74 years ago today, on the 2nd October 1946, Transport Sergeant Harold Robert Hudson, 30th Battalion (Transport Section, Reg No-46), of 24 Terrace Street, (The Terrace), Newcastle, New South Wales, clerk and widower, father of two (Ronald and Lorna), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 69. ANGLICAN 1-43. 57.
No funeral or death notice located.
Born at Newcastle, New South Wales on the 17th March 1877 to Edwin Robert and Elizabeth Caroline Hudson; husband of Florence (Florance) May Hudson nee Davey (married 1901, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 1912), Harold enlisted July 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Sustaining no illness or injuries during his service, Harold returned home May 1919, being discharged on the 17th July 1919.
Mr Hudson’s name has been inscribed on the Cooks Hill Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Board 1 (photo, unveiled on the 5th September 1918, 426 names inscribed).
Harold’s name has been inscribed on the headstone plaque with his wife Florence, but this is now unreadable, so April 2019 I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
Younger brother Aubrey Wattson (3rd Divisional Train, Reg No-258, born 1890, died 1944) also resting at the cemetery. ANGLICAN 1-15. 49.
Lest We Forget.
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