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{{Personnel
|id=2179
|Surname and forenames=Hudson John George
|Army number=4455391
|Rank=Pte
|Age=22
|Unit=10 DLI
|Died/Killed in action=28/5/1940 00:00:00
|Home address=Son of Harry and Lydia Hudson, Spennymoor.
|Source table=10DLI
}}

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 |Date of birth=Born County Durham 1917/18.
 |Age=22
-|Unit=Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date, Posted 10th Bn DLI.  Served BEF.  Presumed to have DIED between 28/5 and 23/6/40  with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
+|Unit=Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date but probably April/May 1939.  ? Posted 6th Bn DLI.  Posted 10th Bn DLI - probably when the Battalion was established in September 1939.  Served BEF.  Presumed to have DIED between 28/5 and 23/6/40  with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
-|Died/Killed in action=28-May-40.  CWGC information indicates that he may he been a passenger on the troopship "Lancastria" and that his body was washed ashore after her sinking on 17th June 1940.
+|Died/Killed in action=28-May-40.  CWGC information indicates that he may have been a passenger on the troopship "H M T Lancastria" and that his body was washed ashore after her sinking on 17th June 1940.
-|Home address=Resident of County Durham.  Enlistment Book indicates he died between 28/5/40 and 23/6/40.  Son of Harry and Lydia Hudson, Spennymoor.  Buried 2. B. 2. Pornic War Cemetery.
+|Home address=Resident of County Durham.  Enlistment Book indicates he died between 28/5/40 and 23/6/40.  Son of Harry and Lydia Hudson, Spennymoor.  Buried 2. B. 2. Pornic War Cemetery, France.
 |Source table=10DLI
 }}
-The strong possibility that Sergeant Hudson was on the Lancastria raises questions as to where he was in France and how he came to embark on that vessel.  To read the Wikipedia article on the sinking please click [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lancastria here].
+The strong possibility that Sergeant Hudson was on the Lancastria raises questions as to where he was in France, why he was not with the remains of the Battalion and how he came to embark on that vessel at St Nazaire.  To read the Wikipedia article on the sinking please click [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lancastria here].

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 |Army number=4455391
 |Rank=Pte
 |Age=22
-|Unit=Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date, Posted 10th Bn DLI, Presumed to have DIED between 28/5 and 23/6/40  with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
+|Unit=Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date, Posted 10th Bn DLI.  Served BEF.  Presumed to have DIED between 28/5 and 23/6/40  with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
-|Died/Killed in action=28-May-40
+|Died/Killed in action=28-May-40.  CWGC information indicates that he may he been a passenger on the troopship "Lancastria" and that his body was washed ashore after her sinking on 17th June 1940.
-|Home address=Enlistment Book indicates died between 28/5/40 and 23/6/40.  Son of Harry and Lydia Hudson, Spennymoor.  Buried 2. B. 2. Pornic War Cemetery.
+|Home address=Resident of County Durham.  Enlistment Book indicates he died between 28/5/40 and 23/6/40.  Son of Harry and Lydia Hudson, Spennymoor.  Buried 2. B. 2. Pornic War Cemetery.
 |Source table=10DLI
 }}