Letter to Mrs Hudson from Red Cross

Letter to Mrs Hudson from Red Cross

Informs her it is not possible to send chocolate to her son in Le Kef as there was no parcel post to Tunisia. States the best was to communicate is by telegram via the US Consul in Tunis.

1941-04-23

One page typewritten letter

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WAR ORGANISATION OF THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY and ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM
FOREIGN RELATIONS DEPARTMENT
WARWICK HOUSE,
ST. JAMES'S, LONDON. S.W.1
23rd April, 1941

JM B/B/S

Mrs. Hudson,
6, Walverden Crescent,
Nelson,
Lancs.

Dear Madam,

re: [underlined] Sgt. James Douglas Hudson [/underlined]

We have been handed your letter of April 9th addressed to 14, Finsbury Circus, and are sorry to tell you that it is not possible to send chocolate to your son in Le Kef. There is no parcel post to Tunisia, and the men there are regarded not as prisoners of war but as internees in unoccupied French territory.

We hope that this will not be a great disappointment to you, but would like to tell you that you can write or telegraph to your son whenever you wish, by the ordinary postal service; we believe you have already been told that the best way to communicate with him is care of the U.S. Consul in Tunis.

Yours faithfully,

[signature]

for S.J.Warner.