South Yorkshire Times, September 16th 1944
M.C. for Captain
Gallant Service in Italy
Mr. and Mrs. Gerrard Hudson, of Capel Street, Wath, have received news that their eldest son, Captain Geoffrey Hudson, has been awarded the Military Cross. He is 23.
In a letter to his parents, Captain Hudson stated that he had fully recovered from a wound sustained in the fighting in Italy on June 16th, and was proceeding to rejoin his division. On the last day of writing, he had been informed of the award of the M.C. for (in the words of his Adjutant,) “that very fine show at Piegaro and for outstanding service to the battalion for so long.”
Captain Hudson, who is serving with the K.O.Y.L.I. attached to the Lancashire Fusiliers, arrived in North Africa as a junior officer with his present battalion in the week of the original landing in November 1942. and is one of very few, out of about 40 officers who have remained with it throughout.
His battalion is one of the now famous 78th Division which has taken part in the severe fighting and arduous campaigning of the 1st Army in Tunisia, with the Americans in Sicily, and the 8th Army under General Montgomery in Italy where, in the struggles around Cassino, Captain Hudson’s particular battalion specially distinguished itself by capturing and holding over five days the bridgehead at the Sangro River. It was at this time that Captain Hudson was given the command of his company when his senior officer was wounded in an exploit which earned for him the D.S.O. Another member of the battalion, Cpl. Jefferson, has recently been awarded the V.C.
Captain Hudson joined the Forces shortly after the outbreak of war, when he had successfully completed a teaching course at Chester Training College. He is an old boy of Wath Grammar School and is commissioned in the same regiment as was his father in the last war.