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Title
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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>
Publisher
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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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[front of envelope] MARSEILLE ET LISBONNE – LONPRES
MR – MRS HUDSON.,
191 HALIFAX ROAD,
NELSON. LANCS.
ENGLAND.
GRANDE-BRETAGNE. [/front of envelope]
[page break]
[underlined] November 2nd. [/underlined]
Camp des Intennes [?]
Laghouat Algerie
[underlined] North Africa [/underlined]
Dear Mr and Mrs Hudson,
Very many thanks for your wishes sent from you by cable and passed on to me by your son “Daug”. I am glad you received the card with my little addition, I was obliged to put some little remark on it otherwise you would think I was a real bad “type”. Reading postcards is not in my line at all realy[sic], but being a postman one cannot help seeing little bits now and again can you? More so if it concerns ones honest self I pull “Daug’s” leg quite a bit about his letters, I do beleive[sic] he realy[sic] thinks I read them at times, he at any rate never seems to get worried about it, I often wonder if he ever worries about anything, he always has a smile on his face, no matter how black things look, and, they look pretty black at times here. I am sure you have no need to worry about him, he is a picture of health and his “they won’t get me down” attitude will bring him out OK.
It is no use me telling you about the camp, as, you will have heard all about it before, Everything is the same, and most men are quite well. I am always looking forward to the day of our freedom, and feel sure it is not so very far off now.
It will be very near Xmas
[page break]
[underlined] 2 [/underlined]
by the time you receive this letter so I think I will close by wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a much happier New Year.
Yours sincerely
H C Gibbins
Postman cum Censor?
P.S.
Have you found him a nice girl pen friend yet? Can you find me one?
[page break]
[reverse of envelope] DE. H.C. Gibbins RAF.
INTERNE LAGHOUAT
ALGERIA [/reverse of envelope]
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Title
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Letter from Sergeant Gibbins in Laghouat camp to Douglas Hudson's parents.
Description
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Writes his job as postman and that sometimes sees what other have written on post cards. States that Douglas always has a smile and does not worry about anything, Reports all are well and looking forward to freedom.
Creator
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G B Gibbins
Format
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Two page handwritten letter, envelope and handwritten note
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EGibbinsGHudson[Fa-Mo]421102
Coverage
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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
Contributor
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Sue Smith
David Bloomfield
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.
prisoner of war