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General Sir Havelock Hudson GCB KCIE (22 June 1862〔January 1930 Indian Army List Supplement〕 – 25 December 1944〔Officer Casualties of the Indian Armies 1803-1946 by A. J. Farrington〕) was a British Indian Army officer who was General Officer Commanding 8th Division during World War I. ==Military career== Hudson was commissioned into the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1881. He transferred to the Indian Staff Corps in 1885〔Quarterly Army List March 1922〕 and became an officer of the 19th Lancers from that year.〔History of the 19th King George's Own Lancers 1858-1921〕 He served on the staff during the North West Frontier of India in 1897, took part in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 on the staff again and went on the second Miranzai expedition in 1901.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He commanded the 19th Lancers from 4 February to 27 August 1910.〔History of the 19th King George's Own Lancers 1858-1921〕 He was appointed a General Staff Officer Grade 1 with the Directorate of Staff Duties and Military Training on 1 July 1910.〔Indian Army List April 1911〕 He was appointed Commandant of the Cavalry School at Sangor in India 1 July until 30 September 1912 and became Brigadier-General on the General Staff of the Northern Army on 1 October 1912.〔 〔Quarterly Army List March 1922〕 He served in World War I as Brigadier-General on the General Staff of the Indian Corps from 1914,〔(University of Birmingham )〕 then was appointed General Officer Commanding 8th Division on the Western Front from 31 July 1915〔(Army Commands )〕 (in which capacity he led the attack on Ovillers losing 5,400 men)〔 until 8 December 1916 〔Quarterly Army List March 1922〕and was appointed Adjutant General, India from 5 Feb 1917 until 30 October 1920.〔 Following the Amritsar massacre in 1919 it fell to Hudson, in his capacity as Adjutant-General, to tell Brigadier Reginald Dyer that he was relieved of his command.〔(''Mariners, Merchants and the Military Too'' By Phillip E Jones )〕 He went on to be General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Eastern Army in India in 1 November 1920 〔Quarterly Army List March 1922〕before retiring in 1924.〔 In retirement he was a member of the Council of India.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Havelock Hudson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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