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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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[underlined] 80 [/underlined]
191 Halifax Road,
Nelson Lancs/. [sic]
England.
Monday. Sept. 14th./42
My dear Douglas.
This is a beautiful Autumn morning, with mist, & a rising sun which gives promise of a glorious day. We have been very fortunate with weather for our holidays this year. The June holiday was the best weather of the year & now this weekend (after a very poor spell of cold & wet) is grand again.
On Saturday I went into Nelson & sent the following message by cable. "Delighted cable received eighth. Twelve letters June 5th to July 17th. Dads holiday weekend. Staying home. Pleasant Autumn day All love Hudson." As I keep on Saying [sic] these cables are priceless to me. It would seem a very very long time to wait from July 17th for news of you. Some of your letters (June 15th & 17th) brought anxiety too, but I am trying to develop a strong belief in fatalism. Some-times I feel absolutely bewildered & very distressed but the mood passes & I realize that in quietness & confidence is my strength. I wonder, if, when you come back we shall still live in this small industrial town. The country around is very beautiful & with congenial companionship I would be very happy. Last night our neighbour called to ask us to go for a walk. Of course Dad wouldn't - refuse
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to go with him. I loved it, but how I did [one indecipherable word] of you & wish we could have [two indecipherable words] beauty together. On Saturday morning Dad had a letter from Mr Mackenzie of Messrs Jaffe & [underlined] Sons [/underlined] asking for your address. He said they had formed "a staff-comforts for troops & prisoners of war fund" & wished to know if you had any special desires & what brand of cigarettes you would prefer. So Dad told him your comforts would be books, socks, & soap, & tobacco for pipe-smoking, & your favourite cigarettes were Capstan, Players & Churchman. The letter was forwarded from Kersal. Although Jaffe's have this address, or should have, as Dad wrote to them from here acknowledging their Christmas gift. I suggested in a recent letter that you wrote to Mr Allan. It will be as well to keep in touch don't you think./. [sic] Well love I keep on reading your last lot of letters & do hope you are now enjoying cooler weather. Perhaps you will tell me the name of your friend from Wales. I like to picture the different boys. No doubt the pictures are all wrong but they bring some little interest until the time arrives for which we live & you can tell us of your strange life & adventures. Three years ago just at this time we were spending such happy hours together rambling in the Cheshire Lanes. There are no brambles around here no doubt the factory smoke has destroyed what [deleted] the [/deleted] bushes there were long ago. Goodbye now love, for a few more days - always nearer to the greatest day of all. Our love & thoughts - & prayers are ever with - you. Mother & Dad
[inserted 755052 Hudson Camp Militaire Laghouat. Algerie. [/inserted]
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Description
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Writes about weather over year's holidays. Reports content of cable she send previous Saturday. Says how important cables are to her as no letters for some time. Wonders whether when he returns they will still live in their small industrial town. Catches up with gossip and family news. Mentions letter about an organisation being set up to aid troops and prisoners of war asking for his address and anything that he required. Passed on list of items requested and type of cigarettes. Discusses other correspondence. Comments on some content of his letters and photographs he sent.
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P Hudson
Date
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1942-09-14
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
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eng
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD420914
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Algeria
Algeria--Laghouat (Province)
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Nelson
North Africa
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1942-09-14
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Joy Reynard
prisoner of war