ARMBAND

History: DONOR'S FATHER'S FAMILY CAME TO AREA IN 1910, MOTHER'S SIDE ABOUT 1918. DONOR'S FATHER SERVED IN W.W. 1 WITH 20TH FIELD BATTERY R.C.A.. OTHER MATERIAL IS FROM HUDSON'S FARM - DATES POST A.D. 1925. MR. HUDSON'S FATHER AND GRANDFATHER SETTLED FIRST IN LETHBRIDGE. FATHER AND GRANDFATHER BOTH WERE TRAVELLING SALESMEN IN EARLY YEARS. HIS FATHER THEN SETTLED IN TABER, AFTER W.W. I. HE STARTED FARMING IN IRON SPRINGS IN 1925. *UPDATE* IN 2012 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT DAVID SMITH CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF MILITARY OBJECTS. HE LEARNED THE FOLLOWING. ACCORDING TO KENNETH ALLAN HUDSON’S OBITUARY IN THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD, “HUDSON PASSED AWAY ON TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 1993 AT THE AGE OF 71 YEARS, BELOVED HUSBAND OF MRS. FLORENCE HUDSON OF PICTURE BUTTE ALBERTA. BORN IN TABER, ALBERTA ON JANUARY 28, 1922, KEN MARRIED FLORENCE ANGLE ON JANUARY 19, 1949 IN LETHBRIDGE. KEN SERVED OVERSEAS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WITH R.C.A.S.C.. FOLLOWING THE WAR, HE RETURNED TO SOUTHERN ALBERTA. KEN RETIRED IN 1987, AFTER SELLING THE FARM AND HAS RESIDED IN PICTURE BUTTE UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS PASSING. KEN WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION AND ACTIVE WITH THE BOY SCOUTS OF CANADA IN HIS EARLIER YEARS.” ACCORDING TO THE LEGION MAGAZINE ONLINE, HUDSON WAS ISSUED THE SERVICE NUMBER M105776. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE.