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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
22-4-42. Afrique du Nord.
My Dear Mother & Dad,
It is a year ago today (by the day) [deleted] that [/deleted] [inserted] since [/inserted] we left Kef. for the brief respite of Médéa, and it is rather strange but after a spell of hot weather the temperature had dropped to the same as Médéa’s temperature at this time last year. It is very welcome and puts the summer off temperorily [sic], whilst at the same time it does not encourage the flies which were beginning to make their presence felt. In my last letter I acknowledged your telegram of April 15th which I was so pleased to receive and I sent a reply the same day. I also acknowledged four letters received on April 14th, nos. 21, 23, 25 & 26. So far I have received twenty-four of the first twenty-six you have written this year, the two missing ones being nos. 11 & 22. I also enclosed a photo of the front cover of an early edition of the ‘Camp Echo’ I hope it arrived. I have ordered several copies of other photos of this journal and when I receive them I hope to be able forward them to you. With this letter I am sending a photo of Raj, our little dog and the [indecipherable word] little fellow in the camp. Since this photo. was taken several of the dogs have been destroyed – a good move because there were too many and they were fast multiplying. The other photo I am sending is of me at work on the “Camp Echo” It was taken about 2 months ago, indoors in electric light. Taking this into consideration the result is not bad. This shows our old rooms but does not
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give much detail. I have been inoculated again today, being the third time in 2 weeks. The first dose was 10% fourteen days ago, followed by 30% last Wed. & 60% to complete, today. (Anti-typhus) The after effects of the 10% were the most unpleasant but I appeared to be more fortunate than the majority. I anticipate other inoculations at a later date for typhoid. As mentioned previously we all had two inoculations over 12 months ago at Kef, and as these followed up the four I had in England in June 1940 I imagine I shall be pretty well stocked up with serum. It is fairly essential to be done out here – nobody refuses. If you suffer any cut out in this climate it does not heal as in England, but goes dry & crusty and takes a very long time. A rather interesting point but true [deleted] e [/deleted] , the chaps who have been out here a long time compare more than favourably with the new arrivals for fitness and in the majority of cases they appear to be in far better condition. It does not pay me to say these things really, but if it is comforting to you to know I feel it is my duty to tell you. Of course a sunburned body appears far more healthy and pleasing to the eye than the white English nakedness and maybe this has something to do with it. I cabled a few days ago asking you to send via the Red X. soap, towels [symbol] and socks. Soap is ridiculously scarce and I changed [indecipherable word] cigarettes (also scarce again) for a bar yesterday. Being a Yorkshireman I have a small reserve; [deleted] but [/deleted] it does pay to have a little on one side. As soon as your cigarettes arrive I will cable if possible. I will bid you au revoir for the present and end as usual by sending you both all my love, thoughts and best wishes. Douglas.
[symbol] Tony recd. these last week from his mother.
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
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Writes that it was a year since they left El Kef. Comments on a welcome drop in temperature but that flies were making themselves felt. Catches up on mail received. Writes that he is enclosing photographs including one of the cover of the camp newspaper and others of them working on its production. Mentions being inoculated again with more to come and comments that this is essential and no one refuses due to climate and conditions. Writes that those who have been there a long time look sunburned and fitter than new arrivals. He asks again for them to send soap, socks and towels via Red Cross as these are ridiculously difficult to get.
Date
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1942-04-22
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE420422
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Algeria
Algeria--Laghouat (Province)
Algeria--Algiers
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1942-04-22
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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Peter Bradbury
prisoner of war
Red Cross