Bill Hudson’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Footballer
Was Athlete 
Football player 
Australian-rules footballer 
From Guinea 
Type Sports 
Gender male
Birth 11 November 1920, Adelaide, Australia
Death 11 April 1945, New Guinea, Indonesia
(aged 24 years)
Star sign Scorpio
Sports Teams
St Kilda Football Club

Ross William “Bill” Hudson (11 November 1920–11 April 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda. Joining St Kilda during army service in World War II, he died from injuries sustained in an accidental grenade explosion whilst serving with the Second AIF in New Guinea.

Family

The son of Albert Arthur Hudson, and Ann Hudson, Ross William Hudson was born in Adelaide on 11 November 1920. He married Eileen Maria Coombes on 4 March 1944.

Education

He was educated at Goodwood Central School.

Football

West Adelaide (SANFL)

He played in 68 games and scored 134 goals for the West Adelaide Football Club from 1937 to 1942, with one of those games played for the “West-Glenelg” (the combined West Adelaide and Glenelg Football Club) team, on 13 June 1942, in the so-called “Patriotic League” in South Australia, before the Army transferred him to Victoria.

St Kilda (VFL)

Having been transferred to Victoria with the AIF, he played five games for St Kilda in 1942, the first of which was the round 11 match against North Melbourne on 18 July 1942. Selected as nineteenth man, Hudson came on in the second quarter and kicked three goals.

Cricket

He played for cricket for the Adelaide Cricket Club. From the 1936/1937 season to the 1940/1941 season, he “scored 342 runs from 26 innings (three not out) for an average of 14.86 and a top score of 65”.

Military service

Employed as a printer at Vardon and Sons Printing Works, he enlisted in the Second AIF in October 1941.

Death

Hudson served as a lance-corporal in the Pacific theatre of the Second World War, and died of injuries sustained — “accidentally killed in a grenade explosion” — while fighting the Japanese, in New Guinea on 11 April 1945. He was buried at the Bomana War Cemetery on 15 April 1945.

Footnotes

Sources

  • Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
  • Main, J. & Allen, D., “Hudson, Bill”, pp.267-269 in Main, J. & Allen, D., Fallen – The Ultimate Heroes: Footballers Who Never Returned From War, Crown Content, (Melbourne), 2002.
  • Roll of Honour: Lance Corporal Ross William Hudson (SX20394), Australian War Memorial.
  • Roll of Honour Circular: Lance Corporal Ross William Hudson (SX20394), Australian War Memorial Collection.
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