WOUNDS
WHICH PROVED FATAL SAD NEWS FOR BURNLEY WIFE (Burnley Express 28/8/15)
Only a day after receiving word from her husband that he was going
on all right, Mrs Hudson of 19 Engine Street, Burnley, got a War Office
intimation that Private Henry James Hudson (11240) 6th East Lancashire
Regiment, had died from his wounds. He wrote on August 2nd from a hospital
ship as follows;- “Only just a line to tell you that I have been
wounded and am doing all right, and hope to be well again. So don’t
worry.” The day after she received this, she had intimation that
death occurred on August 10th.
Private H. J. Hudson joined the East Lancashire regiment last August,
a week after war broke out, and was at Preston, Tidsworth, Winchester,
and Blackdown before going out with the 6th Battalion about ten weeks
ago to the Dardanelles.
He was a native of Padiham, where his sister resides, but had lived and
worked in Burnley as a carter for about five years. He was 30 years of
age last July, and he leaves a widow, but no family. One of his brothers
is on active service in France.
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