Mudge, AH

Private Aubrey Huxley Mudge

Aubrey was born on February 21^st 1897, the elder of two children of George Mudge, a biology lecturer at London University, and his wife Kate. He came to the College at the start of 1913, shortly before his sixteenth birthday, and was a pupil for almost three years, leaving at the end of 1915, whilst a member of the Science Upper 5^th.

In March 1916, three months after leaving Dulwich, Aubrey enlisted in the Public Schools Battalion, spending the next several months training in Britain, first at Oxford, and then in Edinburgh. That August he went over to the front for the first time, and spent the rest of that year serving in the trenches, at first at Delville Wood, on the Somme, and later near Vimy Ridge. At the end of 1916 he returned to England, and the following March was reassigned to the Royal Fusiliers, with whom he was at first assigned to a role at Dover, but not long afterwards was once again stationed at Vimy Ridge. On May 4^th, whilst acting as part of the major British assault on the Arras front launched the day before, he was severely wounded in a shell explosion. He passed away at No. XI General Hospital, Dannes, six days later, on May 10^th 1917.