Robert L. Hudson
Grave marker — Beverly National Cemetery, Beverly, New Jersey
Technician Fifth Class, U.S. Army
590th Ambulance Company
Entered the Service from: New Jersey
Died: May 26, 1945
Buried at: Plot F1673E
Beverly National Cemetery
Beverly, New Jersey
Introduction
Technician Fifth Class Robert L. Hudson was born on November 11, 1922. He lived with his wife, Thelma E. Hudson, at 239 Pine Street in the early 1940s, before entering the United States Army. He served with the 590th Ambulance Company, a Negro unit in the then segregated Army. The 590th landed in France six days after D-Day, June 6, 1944, and rescued wounded soldiers from the earliest days in Normandy, through the Battle of the Bulge, when its ambulances were among the first to reach the besieged troops at Bastogne, and on into Germany.
After the war in Europe had ended, Robert Hudson died in an accident while serving overseas on May 26, 1945. At the request of his family, his body was returned home, and he was buried at Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly, New Jersey on December 15, 1948. He was survived by his wife, Thelma E. Hudson, and three daughters, Blanche, Amy, and Peggy Hudson.
The Hudson-Adams-Carpenter American Legion Post 473 in Camden, New Jersey is named in part for him.