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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
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2015-06-16
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Hudson, JD
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[inserted] 79 10-12-41. [/inserted]
191 Halifax Road
Nelson
Lancs
England.
Sunday Oct. 26th/41.
My dear Douglas.
This has been a very cold day with very strong east [inserted] wind [/inserted] & we have had to stay indoors. And now we are sitting beside a lovely fire, listening to a variety programme, & of course thinking of you all the time. At the moment two people are screaming away & making the most awful noise, & the audience is (or are) clapping enthusiastically [deleted one word] [inserted] as [/inserted] if they had enjoyed the noise. Now they are just warbling[?] about “When we were young in May” but it doesn’t appear to have been much of a time by the way they are screaming.
Well, love, the days are just passing away & all the time we are looking forward to days of joyous reunion. I only wish the time passed quickly for you too. & often when we are listening in I wonder if you are able to listen in too. I think the Cummin’s[?] letter said you had radio in the camp. It does seem a very long time [deleted] to [/deleted] since we had a letter from you, but I’m afraid very[?] much mail has been lost & I wonder if you are not getting letters either. Yesterday we sent a cake to you with the usual prepaid reply & now I’m just looking forward to your message. I bought a calendar to send to you & do hope it
[page break]
Reach you all right. It is such a pretty picture & will bring happiest memories of the days when we travelled so much together. Do you remember two years ago those happy afternoons in the Cheshire lanes? The weather was very much like we have had these few days. Very bright sunshine but cold when the sun has set.
Yesterdaywe went into town & Dad got a pair of new shoes. Did I tell you that all clothing is rationed & can only be bought by coupons. Each adult is allowed 66 coupons for one year. We had to give 7 coupons for a pair of shoes. There is a very acute shortage of umbrellas now. It’s funny how things seem to disappear & then reappear. Do you remember the shortage of flashlamp batteries? There are plenty of those now & we still have [indecipherable word] very large one which we bought together though I doubt if it will be much good now. They deteriorate with keeping don’t they? We not had a word from [indecipherable word] since we heard that Grandad had arrived back [deleted] fr [/deleted] safely. Now it is time to prepare for supper – just the usual. Won’t it be just marvellous when we can all enjoy it together again? I will say Goodnight to you now & leave my letter open in the hope of a letter from you in the morning.
Monday morning & no luck re letters. It is dark now when Dad goes out & we don’t care much for groping about do we? Now love goodbye again. With all our love & thoughts & prayers from Mother & Dad.
755052 Hudson
Camp Militaire
[indecipherable word]
Algerie Afrique du Nord.
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Description
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Writes while listening to radio on cold day. Wonders if he has radio in camp. It has been a long time since they had a letter and wonders if some have been lost. Sent cable previous day with pre-paid reply. Writes of clothing rationing and shortage of umbrellas. Mentions other shortages and catches up with family news.
Creator
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P Hudson
Date
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1941-10-26
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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Text
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD411026
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Algeria
Algeria--Sūr al-Ghuzlān
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Nelson
North Africa
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1941-10-26
1941-12-10
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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