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Lt. Walter Leonard Hudspith MC
British Army 1st Regiment Middlesex Regt (duke Cambridge own)
from:Camberwell, SE London
(d.7th November 1918)
Lt Walter Leonard Hudspith was killed by a German shell on 7th November 1918. The battalion was moving along a road just prior to going into action when a shell landed, killing him instantly. Two nights before his unit had effected the crossing of the River Sambre at Bertaimont, the first unit in the British Army to do so, having first constructed a bridge. He had previously been awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry and leadership at the Battle of Villers Guislain on September 29th.