HUDSON, Aubrey Watson
| Service Number: | 258 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Divisional Train |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 22 April 1890 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Cooks Hill Superior Public School Roll of Honour, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 10 May 1944, aged 54 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-15. 49. |
| Memorials: | Cook's Hill Superior Public School |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 258, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Driver, 258, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Driver, 258, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 6 Aug 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 3rd Divisional Train | |
| 15 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 258, 3rd Divisional Train, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
78 years ago today, on the 11th May 1944, Driver Aubrey Wattson Hudson, 3rd Australian Divisional Train (Reg No-258), clerk (A. Goninan and Company, Newcastle City Council), of 24 Terrace Street, (The Terrace), Newcastle, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 54. ANGLICAN 1-15. 49.
Born at Newcastle, New South Wales on the 22nd April 1890 to Edwin Robert and Elizabeth Caroline Hudson. Aubrey enlisted March 1916 with the 35th Battalion at Sydney, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 12.1.1917 (impetigo, infection of the skin caused by bacteria).
Aubrey was invalided home July 1919, being discharged on the 15th August 1919.
Mr. Hudson’s name has been inscribed on the Cooks Hill Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Newcastle Amalgamated Society of Engineers Roll of Honour, the Newcastle Loyal Union Lodge Manchester Unity I.O.O.F. Roll of Honour. Name not inscribed on the A. Goninan and Company Roll of Honor.
Research indicates that Mr. Hudson never married, and I have not located a death or funeral notice.
The family headstone is quite magnificent, but there is no indication inscribed that Aubrey served in The Great War, as with so many headstone inscriptions of 1st A.I.F. soldiers resting at the cemetery, so I have placed poppies in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Older brother Harold Robert (30th Battalion, Reg No-46, born 1877, died 1946) also resting at the cemetery. ANGLICAN 1-43. 57.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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