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The Victoria Cross Hunters in Search of Valour Episode 4, number 19 from Tea Planter to Victoria Cross
Who is number 19 in our countdown of 20 remarkable Victoria Cross recipients?
In Episode 4 of The Victoria Cross Hunters: In Search of Valour, we reveal the extraordinary story of Charles Edward Hudson VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC — one of the most highly decorated British officers of his generation and the only former tea planter known to have been awarded the Victoria Cross.
Hudson survived the Somme and Passchendaele before being sent to the Italian Front. On 15 June 1918, with enemy troops breaking through near Asiago, he gathered a makeshift force and personally led a desperate counterattack…
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