Author and journalist Linden MacIntyre on the life of a disgraced British officer
STORY BY ALEX BOWERS
History will forever judge the judgeable, no matter where they’re laid to rest.
Such was the case of British Major-General Hugh Tudor, a once-hero of the Great War turned co-architect of some of the worst atrocities in the struggle for Irish Independence. While his enemies never exacted revenge upon him after he sought sanctuary in Newfoundland, the enigmatic former officer—who could have prevented much of 1920’s Bloody Sunday—failed to escape his tarnished reputation.
Where did it go so wrong for Tudor, a man mentioned in dispatches 10 times on the Western Front only for his name—and that of the infamous Black and Tans he commanded—to be reviled? This is one of many questions that renowned Canadian journalist and author Linden MacIntyre endeavours to answer in his latest book An Accidental Villain: A Soldier’s Tale of War, Deceit and Exile.
The biographer offered his insights in a Legion Magazine exclusive.
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