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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 1252

A Great War 1917 ´Battle of Passchendaele´ M.M. Group of Three to Lance Corporal H.T. Hudson, Royal Engineers a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (558411 A.L.Cpl. H.T. Hudson. 56/D.S. Coy. R.E.- T.F.) b) British War and Victory Medals (2091 Spr. H.T. Hudson. R.E.), extremely fine The group with the following official documents &c.: - Recipient´s Certificate of Transfer to Reserve on Demobilization, dated 21.2.1919, together with related original envelope - 56th (London) Division B.E.F. Commendation Card, addressed to the recipient, from the Major General Commanding, regarding the award of the M.M. - Record Office post card receipt for the award of the Campaign Medals - Photograph of the recipient´s unit - Copy of Divisional Routine Orders, dated 21.9.1917, listing the award of the recipient´s M.M. - Copy of a page from The Middlesex County Times, dated 6.10.1917, with a photograph of the recipient on the occasion of his having been awarded the M.M. (3) Estimate £ 240-280 M.M. London Gazette 2.11.1917 558411 Spr. (L./C.) H.T. Hudson, R.E. (Ealing). 558411 Lance Corporal Henry Thomas Hudson, born Ealing, Middlesex, 1886; enlisted in the Signal Company, Royal Engineers, 19.4.1915; served with the 56th (London) Division in France from February 1916; served at the Battle of Passchendaele from June, 1917 (attached 167 Brigade); returned to England on leave, 1.10.1917, to receive the following telegram from his Commanding Officer: ´Heartiest Congratulations. Awarded the Military Medal´; transferred to the Reserve, 21.2.1919.

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