1 25 1 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/886/10941/NSmithEA151029-030005.jpg 8ab26c2e50b7c7d0b18ef80739670fb0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hudson, Douglas James Douglas Hudson J D Hudson Description An account of the resource 529 items. Collection concerns Pilot Officer James Douglas Hudson, DFC (755052 Royal Air Force) who joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1939 and trained as an observer. While on route to Malta in August 1940 his Blenheim crashed in Tunisia and he was subsequently interned for two and a half years by Vichy French in Tunisia and Algeria. After being freed he returned to Great Britain and after navigator retraining completed a tour of 30 operations on 100 Squadron. The collection contains letters to and from his parents and from French penfriends while interned in Tunisia and Algeria, newspaper cuttings of various events, logbooks and lists of operations, official documents and photographs. A further 23 items are in two sub-collections with details of navigator examinations and postcards of Laghouat Algeria. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Elizabeth Smith and Yvonne Puncher and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. This collection also contains items concerning Louis Murray and Harry Bowers. Additional information on <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/202827/">Harry Bowers</a> and <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/220410/">Louis Murray</a> is available via the IBCC Losses Database. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-06-16 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Hudson, JD Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [Underlined] Sunday Chronicle and Sunday Referee [/underlined] Plane races food to Army in snow-bound camp Cut off 4 days by huge drifts Meat is landed by parachute THEY GOT THEIR RATIONS BY AIR [Photograph] Airmen loaded into the ‘plane the food that saved the boys. “Sunday Chronicle” Special Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN SCOTLAND, Saturday. FOUR HUNDRED officers and men of the Royal Army Service Corps unit in South-west Scotland were marooned without supplies for four days during the “Great Freeze” last month, it was revealed today. With huge snowdrifts – as high as telegraph poles- surrounding their camp, and cutting off road and rail contact for 40 miles around, they found themselves with just enough bread and meat for one more day. Through their one remaining telephone line the commanding officer managed to get an SOS through to headquarters. Immediately a giant bomber was loaded with 700lbof bread and took off for the camp. The panels in the bomb-aimer’s compartment were removed so that the food could be dropped. After 35 minutes the pilot reached the marooned camp, and the entire unit turned out to watch the machine circle six times, dropping the bread by parachute. Bad weather prevented meat supplies, which were now exhausted, being dropped on the following day. A smaller plane managed to get through to drop yeast, so that people living nearby could make bread. Next day the bomber returned and dropped 1,000lb of meat and a further supply of bread. The bomber pilot stated that the snow was so deep around the camp that roads were hidden. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Plane races food to Army in snow-bound camp Description An account of the resource Account of troops in Scotland marooned without supplies and bomber loaded with 700 pound of bread drops supplies. Further supplies were dropped over a few days. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Sunday Chronicle and Sunday Referee IBCC Digital Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One newspaper cutting Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NSmithEA151029-030005 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force British Army Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain Scotland Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Claire Monk