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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

HUDSON, Maj Gen Corrie (1874-1958)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Hudson

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: HUDSON, Maj Gen Corrie (1874-1958)

Date(s): Created 1905, 1929, 1980

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1874; House Surgeon and House Physician at Charing Cross Hospital, London, 1897-1898; entered Indian Medical Service, 1899; Medical Officer 2nd Queen's Own Rajput Light Infantry, 1899-1907; served in China, 1900-1902; Capt, 1902; served in Somaliland Field Force, 1903-1904; Staff Surgeon, Bangalore, 1908-1912; Maj, 1910; served in Balkan War, 1912-1913; Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services, 1 Indian Cavalry Div, 1914-1916; Medical Officer, 11 King Edward's Own Lancers, 1916-1917; Lt Col, 1918; Assistant Director of Medical Services, Wazaristan Field Force, 1919-1920; Assistant Director of Medical Services, Wana Column, 1920-1921; Assistant Director of Medical Services, Razmak Field Force, 1922-1923; Director of MedicalOrganisation for War, Army HQ, 1924-1925; Col, 1925; Maj-Gen, 1928; Deputy Director of Medical Services, Eastern Command, 1928-1932; Honorary Surgeon to King George V, 1928-1932; died in 1958.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Summary of his military career, 1890-1932, [1932], his daughter's birth certificate, 1905, and a list of medals, papers and other items relating to Hudson received by the National Army Museum, 1980. 'Correspondence regarding the removal of the grave of Capt Granville Gower Loch CB, RN from the Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma', 1924-1929, a pamphlet published at the request of MajGordon Loch in 1929.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1987.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The papers of Brig Robert Neville Falkiner Marks (GB99 KCLMA Marks) (Hudson's son-in-law)include some items relating to Hudson. National Army Museum holds medals, decorations and some papers relating to Hudson, 1890-1932. The Royal Geographical Society holds his travel diaries (non-military) and a notebook relating to his career in Indian Medical Service.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Colonial forces | Armed forces | State security
Medals | Awards | Social norms | Social behaviour
Military awards | Awards | Social norms | Social behaviour
Military medicine | Medical sciences
Surgery | Medical sciences
War graves | International conflicts
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Loch | Gordon | fl 1929 | Major
Loch | Granville Gower | d 1924 | Captain

Corporate names

Places
Shwedagon Pagoda | Myanmar | South East Asia