Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, South Africa 1901 (15461 Tpr. J. J. Hudson, 75th Coy. 18th Imp. Yeo.) contact marks and polished, otherwise good fine or better £140-160

John James Hudson was born in North Allerton, Yorkshire and enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry in March 1900, aged 33 years. Described on his attestation papers as having a ‘wound on the right shoulder’, he was certainly well-travelled, having married in Cape Town in 1897 when already a father to two girls born in Melbourne in 1887 and in Sydney in 1890.

An original member of the 120-strong 75th (Sharpshooters) Company, 18th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, Hudson served in South Africa with the Rhodesian Field Force from April 1900 to April 1901, where he won entitlement to the above described Medal and clasps (accompanying verification refers). He was discharged at Aldershot in June 1901, having latterly held the rank of Lance-Corporal.