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Robert Hudson was born in Beverley the 20 Aug 1897 and baptised at St Nicholas’ Church the 3 Nov 1897, the son of Annie Beckwith Hudson, born in 1879. Annie was the daughter of Thomas Dobson Hudson, a labourer and later seed crusher at the mill on Beckside. Annie married George Block of Beverley in 1899 at St Nicholas’ Church. The couple had three children. George Block died in 1909. The family home was in Crabtree Walk, off Holme Church Lane. The 1911 census records Robert as being a retail grocer’s errand boy but by 1913 he was paying a subscription to a trade union indicating that he may have become an apprentice.
Robert probably enlisted in late 1915 and he joined the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, The Green Howards, known as the Beverley Terriers. He served as a private though his photo in the Beverley Guardian in Dec 1916 states he was a “signaller”. On an unknown date he was “discharged” from the army. This was not because he was unfit for further service since he did not receive the customary Silver Badge. He was awarded the War and Victory medals.
After the war Robert moved to Hull, working as a dock labourer and in the 1939 Register was recorded as being an inmate at the Hull City Mental Hospital (De La Pole) in Willerby.
In 1949 he married Joan E Ferraby, he died, aged 84 in 1981.
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