Jack was the 4th son of Frederick Uden, a butcher from Hythe and Elizabeth from Dover. Jack, along with his 3 elder and 1 younger brothers and 1 older and three younger sisters, lived with their parents at 14 High Street Hythe, Kent according to the 1901 Census. Jack was educated at lympne Village School, Lympe, Kent, but appears to have left the Hythe/Lympne area before the outbreak of war and was resident at 3 Alma Place in Canterbury, Kent. He enlisted into the armed forces on the 27th February 1912 at Shorncliffe Camp, Folkstone, Kent, and on the 22nd December 1914, arrived in France with the 82nd(1/2nd Home Counties) Field Ambulance. Jack's service paper's show that he was discharged due to Malaria, he was awarded a 20% Disabiity War Pension on the 17th February 1919 by the Ministry of Pensions. It is not certain where or when Jack contacted Malaria or when he died. However Jack's name is listed on the Lympne Village and Lumpne War Memorials so it is possible that it was not long after the war. [Information kindly provided by Neil Clarke, who will continue to try to trace where and when Jack died].