BORN HULL 17/11/1879. SON OF WILLIAM HUDSON & SARAH ANN ROBERT. STEPFATHER RICHARD ASPDEN. ENLISTED IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE MILITIA ON 16/11/1899. HE WAS SIX FOOT 2 INCHES TALL, BROWN EYES , FAIR HAIR AND COMPLEXION. JOINED COLDSTREAM GUARDS FEB 1900. MARRIED 1902. WIFE MAUDE HARMAN AND DAUGHTER EVERLYN LIVED AT 44 PORTLAND STREET AND 127 , CHILTERN STREET, HULL. SERVED IN THE BOER WAR. DISCHARGED FROM ARMY ON 15/02/1912. JOINED THE HULL POLICE FORCE, WHICH HE HAD TO LEAVE DUE TO A WEAK CHEST. WORKED AS A COOK AND SPENT TIME IN CANADA, WORKING ON DREDGERS.
AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR, HE JOINED THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, ON 08/09/1914. WENT TO FRANCE AND WAS WOUNDED. AT THE ARMISTICE HE JOINED THE HULL TRAWLERS. WORKED AS A SHIP’S COOK ON THE BARBADOS, WHICH WAS DESTROYED BY STRAY MINE WHILE FISHING. HE LEFT A WIDOW, SON AND DAUGHTER. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 29/11/1920. *
FV Barbados (H938) was a British registered fishing vessel of 183grt built in 1907 by Earles Shipbuilders, Hull. Presumed mined on 6th November 1920. All hands lost.
CREW LOST ON BARBADOS (H938), missing, presumed to have struck mine, 6th November, 1920. HUDSON, Joseph (40), 127 Chiltern st, Hull. Cook JENKINSON, William (47), 3 Emily-ter, Strickland st, Hull. Bosun KELLY, Joseph (53), 5 Villa-ter, Wassand st, Hull. 3rd/Hand KENNY, Patrick (44), 34 Portland Place, Hull. Deckhand PETTMAN, David (35), 11 Burleigh-ter, Hawthorn-ave, Hull. Chief Engineer PHILLIPS, Frederick (52), 14 Milton-grove, Elm st, Hull. 2nd/Hand REYNOLDS, J. H (45), 41 Carrington st, Hull. Skipper RIBEE, Thomas (20), 14 Spring-gdns, Hawthorne-ave, Hull. Trimmer WEAVER, Arthur (44), 5 Talbot-ter, Bean st, Hull. Cook WEAVER, Thomas (40), 8 Belgrave-ter, Rosamond st, Hull. 2nd/Engineer Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?166695
