Gold Stripe, No. 1 1918
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The Uden family were first listed in the 1913 Victoria City Directory:
Uden Alb app Superior Printing & Rubber Stamp Works r - Bethune (V W)
Uden A bench hd Woodworkers Ltd.
Uden Minnie wrapper Popham Bros r Bethune (V W)
Listing from the 1914 Victoria City Directory:
Uden Albt carp h w s Bethune nr Saanich Rd (Saan)
Uden A emp B A Paint Co
Uden Minnie opr B C Tel Co r Albt Uden (Saan)
His contact info was at "Maywood P.O. Victoria" although a card (possibly dated May 8 1925) in his CEF files notes that his address had changed to "Gen. Del., Yakima Wash. USA."
While on active service, Uden had his pay of $15.00 per month assigned to "Mrs. Florence Uden, 116 Queens Rd., Peckham London S.E. England."
He suffered a "gun shot wound" to his right leg while in action in France at Festubert on May 20, 1915. He was evacuated to Middlesex Hospital, Clacton-On-Sea by May 30, noted as having "Shr.Wd.Knee." or a shrapnel wound. On September 27 his medical record indicates that his leg was amputated at the Wansted Red Cross Hospital at Margate, after septic poisoning set in. Later, bone fragments were removed from the leg, and a second amputation was done on September 16, leaving "about a 4" stump" below the hip joint. He then went to a specialist hospital in England. He was discharged from active service on December 17 1915. He returned to Canada via Liverpool one year later, on December 16, 1916. He convalesced in Eastern Canada through 1917, finally registered home at Esquimalt on October 31 1917. At some point he received an artificial leg.
"Private Uden" is listed in the catalogue of the Island Arts & Crafts Society annual exhibition in 1917. He entered a poster into a competition at the exhibition. The catalogue lists 15 artists who entered posters into the competition. Private Uden was in a tough competition, the other artists included John Kyle, Josephine Crease, Will Menelaws, Archie Fairbairn, Crawford Coates, and Arthur Hennell. Also entered into the competition were Thomas S. Southern, another amputee and a fellow student with Uden under commercial artist James Sloan McMillan. A poster by McMillan himself was also entered.
Two of Uden's cartoons were published in the Gold Stripe in 1918: Foolish Questions and One of the Boys. A brief biography of Uden was also published.
A CEF document dated 1919 gives Uden's address as Henley Rooms, 915 Granville St., Vancouver B.C.
The Vancouver City Directory for 1920 lists "Uden Albt artist r 1010 Pendrell". He is not listed in 1921 in either Vancouver or Victoria.
Uden is listed in the 1928 catalogue of the Island Arts & Crafts Society, exhibiting an artwork titled "Old Stone Church." The Victoria City Directory that year lists his address as 36 Douglas (no other Udens are listed), but he isn't listed in 1929.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| DATE | EXHIBITION | ARTWORK |
| 1928 Oct. 23 - 31 | IACS - 19th Annual Exhibition | Old Stone Church |
B.C. Vital Statistics online has no information on Uden.