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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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[Envelope]
[underlined] Mr Hudson [/underlined]
[page break]
Société Protectrice des Animaux en TUNISIE
22 April 1941
Dear Mr Hudson
Very sorry indeed we were not able to visit you [underlined] all [/underlined] at ref but Mrs Dunbars visit to see was left dark just till the Saturday midday when it was to [sic] late for us to ask for permission even Mr Sprivy did not know she was going however we have pleasant remembrances of you all and look forward to seeing you all soon perhaps in [underlined] Algeria [/underlined] if not in England after the war is over, you were all just our family and we will miss you all especially shopping centres
[page break]
Jenny was terribly upset when she knew [underlined] Family [/underlined] Dunbar was going to see you all, however Best of [underlined] Luck [/underlined] and all our Best Wishes Yours Sincerely [sic] Mr, Jenny, & Mrs Longshot
P.S. Best respects to [underlined] Randall [/underlined] & Mr [underlined] Pickles [/underlined] drop a line now and again to Mr Borg.
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from Mr Longshot
Description
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Apologises for not being able to visit and explains problems with getting permission. Looks forward to seeing him in [xxx] if not England after the war. Passes on news of others.
Creator
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Longshot
Date
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1941-04-22
Format
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Two page handwritten letter and envelope
Language
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eng
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Text
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ELongshot[Mr]-J-[Mrs]HudsonJD410422
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1941-04-22
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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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Robin Christian
prisoner of war