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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 420

A Good Great War 1917 French Theatre ´Battle of Menin Road´ M.M. to Corporal C. Hudson, Machine Gun Corps, and North Staffordshire Regiment, For His Gallantry, Before Capture, During a German Flammenwerfer Attack; The Machine Gun Teams Fought to the Last Military Medal, G.V.R. (12366 Cpl. C. Hudson. 100/Coy. M.G.C.), good very fine, together with a photographic image of 100th Machine Gun Company, featuring the recipient Estimate £ 250-300 M.M. London Gazette 17.12.1917 12366 Cpl. C. Hudson, M.G. Corps (Newcastle) 12366 Corporal Charles Hudson, M.M., enlisted as 18078 Private, 7th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, and served in Gallipoli from 30.9.1915; transferred 100 Company, Machine Gun Corps, as part of 33rd Division, 28.4.1916, and won his Military Medal for the Battle of Menin Road, 25.9.1917: ´...it was during this attack that most valuable services were rendered by Lieutenant Huskisson, Sergeant Heanley, Corporal Gates, Corporal Hudson, and Private Samuels of 100th Machine Gun Company, in support of the 2nd Worcesters and 4th Kings. Two gun teams were cut off and attacked with Flammenwerfer. The teams fought to the last, being either shot dead or hideously burned, wounded, and captured. Private Rogers, M.M., who was taken prisoner and now released, wrote confirming the heavy casualties inflicted on the enemy.´ (History of the 33rd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps refers).

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