A Great War 'Western Front' M.C. group of seven awarded to Major C. H. Hudson, Seaforth...

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Major C. H. Hudson, Seaforth Highlanders, later Chief Officer, Woking Fire Brigade Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Captain C H. Hudson 6th Seaforth Highrs 18th. Septr. 1918.’; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. C. H. Hudson. Sea. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. H. Hudson.); Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935 (C. H. Hudson.) contemporarily engraved naming; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear, light pitting from Star, very fine and better (7) £700-£900 --- M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918 ‘For distinguished services in connection with Military Operations in France and Flanders.’ Charles Henry Hudson was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders (Territorial Force) on 6 December 1910 and served with the 1/6 Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 May 1915. For a while in late 1915 and 1916 he was employed on the Staff of the School of Instruction, 3rd Army, training young officers and N.C.O.s about to receive a commission in the arts of sapping. Advanced Captain, he was subsequently awarded the Military Cross; the engraved date on the reverse of his M.C. presumably refers to the date that he was invested ‘in the field’. Prior to the Great War Hudson had taught as a master at Bedford Modern School, mainly in the preparatory department. In later life he served as Chief Officer of the Woking Fire Brigade, and is recorded as having received a Nation Fire Brigades Union Bronze Medal for 10 Years’ service. He died in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Sold with the recipient’s original Commission Document, appointing him a Second Lieutenant in the Territorial Force, dated 30 December 1910; a photographic image of the recipient, contained in a modern glazed frame; and copied research.