The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Major (Quartermaster) J. T. H. Hudson, 7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches, and was the only Officer to serve continuously with the Battalion throughout the entire Great War

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; 1914-15 Star (Q.M. & Major J. T. H. Hudson. Midd’x. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Q.M. & Major. J. T. H. Hudson.); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1915, with integral top riband bar; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (Captain & Q.M. J. T. H. Hudson. 1/V.B. Middx: Regt.) impressed naming; Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, straight bar suspension (2058. Div. Supt. Maj. J. T. H. Hudson D.S.O. No.20 (Hampstead) Div. No.1 Dist. 1920.) mounted as worn, generally very fine (8) £1,400-£1,800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

James Thomas Harold Hudson was born in 1871 and attested for the Hampstead Detachment of the 3rd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers (later the 1st/7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment) in March 1889. Advancing through all the non-commissioned ranks, including Assistant-Sergeant Instructor of Musketry in 1901, he was appointed Quartermaster, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant, in October 1902. Promoted honorary Captain in 1905, and honorary Major in 1910, he was one of only none members of the Battalion to receive the 1911 Coronation Medal.

Hudson served with the 7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment throughout the Great War on the Western Front from the date of the battalion’s arrival on 13 March 1915- reputedly he was the only officer to serve with the 7th Battalion continuously throughout the entire War. For his services he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 4 January 1917 and 21 December 1917), the first for his services at Artois and Picardy, and the second for his services during the summer campaign of 1917; and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. He died at home in St. John’s Wood, Middlesex, on 11 December 1926.

Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient