He earned the nickname of 'Buddha', when the rest of the crew successfully tricked him into dressing-up in little more than a bedsheet for a 'fancy dress' party on the whaling station at South Georgia.

"[2] During the expedition, Hudson was famed for his ability to catch penguins, which the crew used as a source of food whilst trapped on the ice.

Hudson would be put in charge of steering the tiller of one of the lifeboats, the Stancomb Wills, once the crew escaped from the pack ice, eventually landing on Elephant Island.

[3] Towards the end of the expedition, Hudson suffered a severe breakdown of mental morale, possibly due to a massive boil that he developed on his buttocks.

Hudson died on 15 June 1942 while in convoy HG 84 when his ship, the merchant vessel Pelayo, was torpedoed by U-552.