- SURNAME
Hudson
- FORENAME
Christopher Sydney
- UNIT
F Section SOE + Force 136 SOE
- RANK
A/Major + A/Lieutenant Colonel
- NUMBER
172132
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Order and bar,Croix de Guerre (Fr)
- PLACE
France 1944 (CdG) Burma 1945 (DSO and bar)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
born 1.8.1910 Tunbridge Wells,Kent
son of Theodore and Ella Hudson
brought up near Montreux,Switzerland
educated Switzerland
member British ski team at Winter Olympics 1936
Swiis Amateur Open Golf Champion 1939
Pte,Royal Fusiliers 13.6.1940
OCTU,Isle of Man
commission Royal Fusilers 1941 (General List in London Gazette 19.7.1945 DSO - error)
East Kent Auxiliary Units 1941
F Section SOE 1942
codename Simon
Headmaster Circuit (organiser)
arrested 8.10.1942
escaped 3.1.1944 from prison camp Essye,near Toulouse
codename Albin
Headmaster Circuit (organiser) (again)
Force 136 SOE 1945
businessman postwar
twice married (2nd wife Ruth) (daughter by 1st marriage to Joan)
died 7.4.2005
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