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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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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.
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Hudson, JD
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Royal Air Force. 755052. Sgt. J. D. Hudson
c/o. Consul Général des États Unis.
Rue Michelet.
Alger. Algérie.
Afrique du Nord.
14-2-42
My Dear Mother & Dad,
Today is St.Valentines Day and my thoughts are very much with you when your cable arrived dated Feb. 13th reading as follows:- “Our Valentine brings all love and thoughts parcel cigarettes despatched to-day both well eagerly await letters” and I am sending the following telegram reply with this letter this afternoon:- “Delighted cable thirteenth love thoughts reciprocated await parcel latest letter received dated January fourteenth writing always.” Yesterday a letter arrived from you dated November 19th which had come via Germany. This is the second letter which has come this way, the previous one took about eight weeks longer than the usual route and I attribute it to carelessness in our postal authorities who I imagine included these letters with the German P.ofW mail. Yes I remembered on Nov. 21st that it was nineteen years since Mother first took me to school. As she remarks we have travelled many roads together, rough and smooth, and memory does single out the smooth and happy ones. Just at present we are tackling another rough but, on our own this time, but the smooth will appear to be even smoother when we reach the crest of the uphill fight. You will remember in the days of the two-stroke that many times the hills proved difficult, but we always managed to reach the top. To draw what is perhaps an unusual comparison – what the little two-stroke could do I know that we can – our
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difficulties will be overcome one happy day. On [deleted] January [/deleted] [inserted] February [/inserted] 10th I received three letters from you dated Jan. 7th. 12th & 14th and one from Auntie Maud Hudson – via ordinary mail – enclosing a Christmas card, dated Nov. 3rd. Your letters were numbered 3, 5 & 6. I received letter No.1. on Feb 6th. I answered most of the points in those letters when I last wrote to you three or four days ago. From your telegram received today I was very pleased to note that you had been able to despatch a parcel of cigarettes. I presume this is in reply to a request of mine doubtless made in one of the letters received in the last batch of eight, and I expect that it is coming by Air Mail. I do thank you and I am waiting eagerly for it to arrive. Fortunately our recent shortage of cigarettes has been alleviated and we have got back to the one packet a day basis. I do not know whether this will continue. Talking about our dogs Raf & Wimpy, another bitch who wandered into the camp some time ago has just given birth to five of the ugliest pups I have ever seen. Quite a number of other dogs come and go and consequently we are overrun. I consider the original two sufficient and am in favour of suppressing the remainder. I am writing this letter out of doors. The sun is quite hot shining from a cloudless sky but a very cool wind blows making it too dangerous to sunbathe. My face and hands are very tanned but my body gone pale yellow as a result of last year’s sun. The difference between day and night temperatures at this time of the year is very great. I must say good-bye again until I write my next letter. The phrase is getting old but it still rings as true as ever when I say all my love thoughts and best wishes to you both.
[underlined] Douglas {/underlined].
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
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Reports arrival of Valentines day cable and his reply as well as other letters received, some via Germany, probably included in German prisoner of war mail. Catches up with home news and reminisces. Reports arrival of letters from other people. Glad parents were able to dispatch parcel of cigarettes which he awaits eagerly. Writes that cigarette shortage was now over and mentions dogs in who have come into camp. Comments on weather.
Date
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1942-02-14
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE420214
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Algeria
Algeria--Laghouat (Province)
Algeria--Algiers
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1942-02-14
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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Steve Christian
animal
prisoner of war