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Name: HUDSON, John 'Jack'
Nee: son of John and Ann Louise Hudson
Birth Date: 19.8.1906 Calcutta, bapt Karasili, Bengal
Death Date: 17.12.1983 Fish Hoek, S. Africa
First Date: 1910
Last Date: 1961
Profession: Chief mechanical engineer, E.A.R.&H. In E.A. from 1910-14 and 1937-61
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Bolton, Lancs. 1934 Dorothy May Moss b. 24 Sep 1908 Bolton, d. 15 June 2007 Fish Hoek
Children: John (1932 Nairobi-1996, pilot with EAA); Brenda May (Paladini); Ann Catherine (McAdam)
Book Reference: EAWL, Staff 39, Colonial
School: Royal Grammar School, Lancaster; GRAD.I.M.E
General Information:
Source: Mrs C. Hart
Colonial - Asst. Ch. Mech. Engnr. (wks.) 1954; Ch. Mech. Engnr 1955
Staff 39 - Asst. Loco. Superintendent, Loco, Carriage & Wagon Dept., Railways in 1939, appointed 1937. Acting Asst. Works Supdt from May 1939