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Personal info

Full name
HUDSON, Mark Ransom Jr
Date of birth
8 July 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Dyer, Gibson County, Tennessee
Hometown
Dyer, Gibson County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
O-023368
Rank
Major
Function
Battalion Commander
Unit
2nd Battalion,
309th Infantry Regiment,
78th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 December 1944
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
O 19 9

Immediate family

Members
Mark R. Hudson (father)
Mary F. Hudson (mother)
Joy V. Hudson (sister)
Ina M. Hudson (sister)
Ray R. Hudson (brother)
Martha L. Hudson (sister)
John R. Hudson (brother)
Ralph B. Hudson (brother)
Mary F. Hudson (sister)

More information

Maj Mark R. Hudson Jr. attended the public school in Dyer and at Dyersburg. He studied for two years at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, before going to West Point where he graduated in 1940.
Major Hudson was one of four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Mark R. Hudson serving in the armed forces. Captain Ralph Hudson served with the Marines in the South Pacific, John R. Hudson was an electrician's mate first class with the Navy in the Pacific and Sergeant Ray Hudson was in the army at Camp Beale, Calif.
Major Mark Hudson went overseas in October, 1944 after four years service in the United States, most of which was spent at Camp Wheeler and Fort Benning, Ga.

He died in a German field hospital the same day he was taken prisoner of war.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Jack Solomon and the United States Military Academy at West Point, Monty McDaniel, Astrid van Erp, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1920/1930 Census, www.newspapers.com - The Jackson Sun

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Jack Solomon, and the United States Military Academy at West Point