Havelock Hudson

General Sir Havelock Hudson GCB KCIE (1862 – 1944) was a British Army officer who was General Officer Commanding 8th Division during World War I.

Military career
Hudson was commissioned into the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1881. He served on the North West Frontier of India 1897, took part in the response to the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and went on the second Miranzai expedition in 1901. He was appointed Commandant of the Cavalry School at Sangor in India in 1912 and became Brigadier-General on the General Staff of the Northern Army in 1912. He served in World War I as Brigadier-General on the General Staff of the Indian Corps from 1914, General Officer Commanding 8th Division on the Western Front from 1915 (in which capacity he led the attack on Ovillers losing 5,400 men) and as Adjutant General, India from 1917. Following the Amritsar massacre in 1919 it fell to Hudson, in his capacity as Adjutant-General, to tell Brigadier Reginald Dyer that he was relieved of his command. He went on to be General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Eastern Army in India in 1920 before retiring in 1924.

In retirement he was a member of the Council of India.