Description
Queen’s South Africa, 4 bars, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal, Lieutenant Frank Hudson, South Lancashire Regiment, The South Lancs.
Officially engraved in Officer Style: “Lieut: F. Hudson. S. Lanc: Rgt:”
Entitlement confirmed on the medal roll, which appears to be unique to him, receiving vastly different bars to every other man in the 1st South Lancashire Regiment due to his unusual service. Luckily as he was commissioned to quickly for his commendable service in the early part of the Boer War, the medal was instead issued to his new Regiment instead of being to a Sergeant in the Oxford LI.
Also entitled to the King’s South Africa with both bars, named to the same rank and regiment.
Frank Hudson, began the war “In the ranks” of the 1st Battalion Oxfordshire Regiment, with whom he fought in the Relief of Kimberley Operations.
Not long after the war began he had already earned himself a commission based upon merit, the Examiner, 2nd June 1900 recalls: “Sergeant Frank Hudson of the 1st Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry, has been given a commission as 2nd Lieut in the South Lancashire Regiment as a reward for his services in the Boer War, and will joined the 1st Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, now in South Africa.”
He took the place of the deceased Lt F.M. Raphael who had been killed in action.
Joining the 1st South Lancs as a 2nd Lieut on 23rd May 1900 and was promoted to Lieutenant on 23rd December 1901.
November 19th (1901) – Captain Kelly of the RAM, attached to the Regiment, called in on his way into Dundee with Lieutenant Hudson, who had unfortunately fallen down a drop of 20 feet when going round his outposts that previous evening, and broken his arm and otherwise injured himself.”
