Born at Abingdon, Berkshire.
Enlisted at Hampton Court on the 4th of May 1842.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Groom.
From Private to Corporal: 6th of February 1847.
"In confinement", 3rd — 10th of October, and reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 11th of October 1853.
From Private to Corporal: 10th of May 1854.
Wounded in action at Balaclava.
In his brief memoir of the Charge (1875), 1235 Thomas Wroots, 11th Hussars, mentions Edward Hudson as follows. Having reached the guns, they engaged with a regiment of Polish Lancers:
"I saw one of these fellows run up behind one of our Sergeants, I think his name was Hudson, and catch him right in the middle of the back with his lance. He was not killed then, but I heard that he died some time later."
"There was too much confusion to say what did take place at the guns. You may depend upon it we had to do something, or, else not a soul of us ever would have got away. One of the things I remember was that some of the horses without riders held back, some went forward like mad, and some followed us right in.
I recollect in our retreat hearing Lord George Paget say, "For God's sake, 11th and 4th, do [?] halt, and show them a front" — that is when they were peppering us from the right and left. Some one said, "There's the Lancers; let us go and form on them, and we will show them a good front." In place of that it turned out to be a Polish regiment of Lancers. We got near them, but they did not seem to stir.
I saw one fellow, however, run up behind one of our sergeants — I think his name was Hudson — and catch him right in the middle of the back with his lance. He was not killed then; the ambulance brought him in afterwards, but he soon died."
Corporal to Sergeant: 1st of January 1855.
Died, "near Kadikoi", on the 31st of January 1855, aged 32 years.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava and Sebastopol.
Died, "near Kadikoi", on the 31st of January 1855, aged 32 years.
Next of kin: Brother, Henry Hudson, Living at Beccles, Suffolk.
He was buried in the 11th Hussar cemetery on the road between Kadikoi and Karani. (There is a copy of the memorial inscription in the 11th Hussar file. This was on a separate tablet, most of the others being on a combined one.)