Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the sixth and youngest son of Samuel and Sarah Hudson. Three of his brothers also served with the colours. While at school at Luffenham he won a Rutland County Council scholarship and completed his education at Stamford Grammar School, upon leaving school he obtained a position as a clerk in the Stamford offices of Messrs. Ellis and Everard Limited. He enlisted in the Nottinghamshire and Derby Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) and embarked for France on the 2nd April 1918, where he was attached to the Lincolnshire Regiment taking part that month in the Battle of Kemmel Hill. On the 20th August 1918 he was part of the Albert-Bapaume advance, when he was killed by a sniper at Miraumount, where he was buried. A memorial service was held at St. Mary’s Church, South Luffenham, a few days after the receipt of the news of his death.