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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
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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.<br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Elizabeth Smith and Yvonne Puncher and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br />
<p>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.</p>
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-06-16
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Hudson, JD
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Royal Air Force
755052. Sgt. Chef. T.[?] D Hudson
Camp de Sejour Surveille.
LE KEF
TUNISIE
AFRIQUE DU NORD.
1st November 1940
My Dear Mother & Dad,
It is two weeks since I wrote to you last & it is now time to write my next letter, as I am allowed two per month. I do hope my previous letters have arrived (I have written about five) and I do hope that you are both safe & keeping well. I always say this when I write to you, because it is my chief concern, & I think about you at all times day & night, hoping that everything is O.K. I am keeping very well & I am in no way any worse for wear, neither have I lost any weight, or anything like that.
I expect that now you will be having almost winter weather. I remember the warm day two years ago when we went into[?] Wales on Nov. 6th & how I am looking forward to the times when those things will be possible again. It has
[page break]
been rather cold during the last fortnight but to-day has been very warm (like our hot summer) with not a cloud in the sky. The winter season is approaching & I think should be pleasant. We are very high up here, probably about 3000’ feet, in fact this part is quite mountainous.
I have received various [deleted] different [/deleted] types of clothing from different sources & am the possessor of a leather jacket which would be admirable for motor cycling. I still retain my uniform & have with me my possessions such as petrol lighter, cigarette holder & Mother’s pullover, also a few of my photos, one of us three taken in the Trough of Bowland in the days of the Riley. All these things remind me of England. My watch is still O.K. and has now got a new strap. I have shaved my beard & am persevering with a ‘tache.
To-day the Arab feast of Ramadan has finished & we, in common with the Arabs, have been issued with small boxes of Turkish Delight. In order not to over burden the censor I will say cherio[sic] now. Sending you all my love & every best wish for Christmas & New Year (I shall be with you then in spirit if not in person.
Douglas
P.T.O.
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P.S. It should be possible for you to send me a cablegram. Would you make enquiries & see if you could send me one to say you are safe & well?
I have tried to increase my allotment so if the negotiations go through don’t be surprised if you receive more money from the R.A.F.
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
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Mentions he is allowed two letters a month and hopes his previous ones have arrived. Hopes they are keeping well. Reports he is well and has not lost any weight. Mentions current weather and that they are quite high up. Writes of various clothes he has received and that he has retained his uniform and most of his possessions, Mentions that it was Ramadan. and that they had been issued boxes of Turkish delight. Postscript mentions it should be possible for them to send him cablegram and that he has increased his pay allotment to them.
Date
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1940-11-01
Format
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Three page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401101
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-01
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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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.
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Sue Smith
prisoner of war