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Lawson, Harold. Album
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20 items. Album containing photographs and documents relating to Homer Lawson's service in the UK and India.
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ACME WELDERS (METAL WORKERS)LTD
THORNTON STREET,
COLLYHURST
MANCHESTER, 9.
OUR REF. VH/JHT.
F/O. Lawson. H.A.
Earl Street,
Broughton, Nr. Manchester.
11th July 1946.
Dear Sir,
[underlined] Making arrangements for our Staff returning from H.M. Forces. [/underlined]
The firm is expanding considerably and we should appreciate some information about whether you will be returning, if so will you kindly let us know as to date etc;.
Yours faithfully,
For ACME WELDERS (METAL WORKERS) LTD.
John Humphry
[Federal of Master Builders Crest]
[Page Break]
[Postmark]
[Postage Stamp]
F/O. Lawson H.A.
Earl Street,
Broughton,
Nr Manchester.
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Letter to Homer Lawson from Acme Welders
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A letter to Homer asking him to return to work
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Acme Welders
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1946-07-11
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One typewritten letter and envelope
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eng
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PLawsonHA16010021
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
England--Lancashire
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1946-07-11
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Claire Monk
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Howard, Irene
I Howard
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31 Items. An oral history interview with Irene Howard née Green (1925 - 2018), Civil Defence Warden Service and war damage compensation documents, identity cards and ration books as well as various Christmas greetings and photographs of family. She worked in a factory in Manchester during the war and as an Air Raid Precaution Warden. Her house was bombed in December 1940.
The collection was donated by Irene Howard and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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Howard, I
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2017-01-12
2017-03-30
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CH: This interview is being conducted for the International Bomber Command Centre. The interviewer is Cathie Hewitt. The interviewee is Mrs Irene Howard. The interview is taking place at Mrs Howard’s home in Coleby, Lincolnshire on the 12th of January 2017. Also present is Michelle Nunn. Okay. Thank you Irene for agreeing to be interviewed. Perhaps you could give me some background information of when and where you were born and carry on from there?
IH: Right. My name was Irene Green when I was born. I was born on 26th of September in 1925 and we lived in 10 Tarbuck Street, Salford 5, we lived and I was the youngest of quite a large family. My mother, she didn’t work ‘cause she had a lot to look after but my father did. He worked for the Salford Corporation. He had a barge drawn by horse that he used to bring home if he was near us at dinnertime. He’d [start?] the farmers to, you know to pick the produce up for Salford Corporation where the horse and carts used to be waiting for them to take them into towns you see. That’s what me dad did and of course you see I had all the, about four or five sisters altogether and of course I’d been a bridesmaid quite a few times for each one or the other you know. The thing was that when I was born our Lily, that’s the one that passed away at thirty two, she was twenty one so she was quite disgusted with mother, having a baby when I’m twenty one, but mum said, ‘She spoiled you’ she said ‘She dressed you up like a doll.' So I always had decent clothes and I got quite, I think that’s why I’m a bit snooty you know because of it ‘cause you’re really in the streets, you see, you know these side streets, you see they were small streets that had twelve houses, six either side. They came off a long street, you know called Regent Street. They all had different names, these streets and they had black walls at the bottom. That sort of streets they were. We had a wide back entries so they could come down to empty the dustbins, the men, you see, so therefore what’s the name, we lived in this house and it had gas mantles. That’s all you were had to see. Nothing else. And we used to have a radio what had a accumulator attached to it, you see and you used to have to take it to go and get it charged. Be careful not to get any acid on yourself. This is what they used to say, me mam and dad and of course me dad was very strict. We all had to sit properly at the table for meals. You weren’t allowed to have them anywhere else and if you didn’t get on with your meal instead of messing about with it you got told off to eat it. You’d better eat it up because you’ll get it again and he wouldn’t but that’s what he used to threaten with. And anyway he was a very good father because at weekends when he was not on the barge he took over the meals. He cooked all the meals for mam. He said mam cooked ‘em all week she needed a rest so with whatsisname he used to get up and cook and he knew every step on the stairs ready for your breakfast. He’d have the bacon cooked, hanging on a toasting thing what he made, the tongue and he hung it on the thing against the fire so the toast was made. He used to put the bacon, put your plate, you know, these thick plates we had on them days on the thing that was holding it and put the egg on and the bacon used to drip on to the egg to cook. Oh it was beautiful. Never tasted it since. But he always knew which step was coming downstairs but you was always made to go to the sink even though it was cold water. Get your hands and face washed and your hair done. Then you were allowed to come to the table for your breakfast. That was me dad. That’s what he did. And then he used to cook all the dinner. Roast beef and all that we had, and Yorkshire pudding but we always had us Yorkshire pudding first, on its own, and a bit of salt on, a bit of sugar on it. Yeah. That’s how we had our Yorkshire pudding and then you had your main meal you know and then, dad would bake. He used to make apple, always a plate pies. There was apple pie, there was custard pie, there was a current pie and a jam pie. Jam tart as they call them now and so he did all that and we used to have the apple pie with custard for the sweet after. But he did all the cooking and our girls had to you know take turns to you know do all the washing up. That was mam’s time off ‘cause he said 'She’s looked after you all week, and cooked your, and everything.' He said 'Her time to have a rest.' Yeah. He always did that. Yeah, he was a marvellous father and I was spoilt by him even though he had the others. He used to take me to see my Aunt Ada on bank holidays. I had to be all dressed up. Me dad used to put his suit on and have a white stiff front you know underneath like they used to have years ago and his whatsit this like hat he had. Not trilbies, they were called something else. Anyway, we used to go on the tram ‘cause it was trams then. We’d go all the way to Brant Broughton[?]. That’s what it was called in that there. This aunt of mine, well it was me dad’s, one of me dad’s sisters, she had a shop on the corner opposite Strangeways prison, she did. It was fruit side one and all groceries the other and of course we used to, we used to go there and stay with Aunt Ada for a few days, well for a few hours rather, with Uncle Herbert and I think, I always thought she gave me dad a bit of money to have a drink [laughs]. I’m sure she did because when we came home we used to always stop before we come on the tram. He used to call in on this pub to go and have a pint and it was funny really. And I had to stand outside with a lemonade and, ‘If any man spoke to you, shout me.' You know, that was it then, them days. Which you did and I used to wear, always wore a hat. Like a straw bonnet affair and you see when I was a bit older it was like a boater we had. Velour hat. And of course this day it rained and it was a white hat and it blew off my head [laughs] and I was crying with my hat wet so me dad played hell with me mam when he got home ‘cause she didn’t put my elastic underneath it, not that I liked the elastic but that was it, you see and the couple that was over, the governor and that over Strangeways prison then, their daughter was the same age as me and she had some beautiful clothes. I mean she used to give them to my Aunt Ada to send for me, you know, and that sort of thing. That’s how we used to do, well you know until me dad passed away in 1936. He was only sixty one. He had a stroke but they didn’t, able to do things like they are today. He had it at work and so of course me dad was you know going about with a walking stick and that and so we had to manage ‘cause we had to pay doctors’ bills then ‘cause I used to go and pay it for me mam. A shilling a week. Go to the receptionist at the doctors and give her a card and she signed it and took the shilling and that’s how she paid for the doctor, me mam. And I’ll tell you what’s the name used to sit near the door because he made stools. Big stools to sit on. We had four and they used to stand in a recess ‘cause there were too many chairs, couldn’t get around the table. So he made these stools and two of them sat on them and I had to stand between me mam and dad at the table because I was the youngest and that you see and that’s how they did. They both had their rocking chair. Me mam’s was a black one and it was like low and she used to sit in that and me dad sat in one with arms and it was that side and me mam was this side of the table and so of course with what’s ‘is name that’s how I lived and as I say the front room was the posh room. You weren’t allowed in it unless there was a wedding and then of course we had a gate-leg table in the middle and you wound an handle and it opened and you put a piece inside it you know then mam used to bring out a white chenille cloth and all that sort of thing and then a neighbour, somebody she was friendly with would come and get the meal ready if it was a wedding you see and then all the neighbours would come in to wish the couple with a drink, you know, sherry or whatever. And that’s how we did in the front room. And our Lily wanted a sewing machine so mam bought, you know saved up money and they got it. It was a Singer sewing machine that had the lid and [?] that’s how it was and that was under the window and of course you see when me dad died the sons stayed up all night you know while he was laid in his coffin. Yeah. I don’t know what law that was but that’s how they always did ‘cause they’d put white blinds down your windows, upstairs and down, and then put curtain, like white sheets they were round and the coffin used to sit in the front room you see so you could see him and then they’d put the lid on when it was time for the funeral. When it was the funeral he had a horse and coaches in them days. There were four black horses for the hearse and then there was four coaches after, you know. And the neighbours used to collect, somebody’d died in the street and they’d get, buy a cross and it would hang up at the end of the street on the wall for our neighbours all to see it and that used to hang at the back of the hearse, you know, where it was whatsit, it was all glass you see and they used to hang it at the back. The other wreaths would sit on the top of the coffin, you know on top of the roof of the hearse and that was his funeral. I’ve got, the bill’s in there. I could show it you because it was only about five pounds summat, you know. That’s where it is today. Yeah I found it. I meant to tell you. Yeah.
Of course as I grew up to go to school in them days. You didn’t have nursery schools or things like that you just went straight to school. The school was in the next street sort of thing because it became a warden centre you see, in the war and that’s where I used to go to school. Just around the corner, you see. I went there 'til I was eleven and then I went to Tatton Road School to finish until I was fourteen and as I say I was fourteen one day and then on the Monday I went to work at Goldsworthy’s you see. It was an emery place. ‘Cause my brother worked there. My eldest brother, our Bill and he what’s the name, he was the maintenance man at this place and so of course he had got me a job there. That’s how I come to work and I worked from Monday morning to Saturday dinnertime for ten shilling a week. That’s what you got and as I say school was very nice. The little, what they called Saint er no, Regent Street School where I first went the headmistress was very kind and if a child couldn’t come to school ‘cause they’d got no shoes she would take them up the road and buy them a pair of shoes and threaten them if their mother dared to pawn them. That’s what it was and the shoes was only about a shilling or something. They were cheap little black shoes she bought them to make sure they came to school. Yeah ‘cause people used to help them out ‘cause the father probably couldn’t get a job and the mother didn’t work in them days. No mothers went to work when I was young. They were all at home, you see and that’s how it used to be and they used to be, down our back entry there used to be a bookies where they had a [?] who stood outside and if someone saw the Ds, as they called them, coming down Regent Street they’d warn him and you see the bookie would disappear, shut all up and sometimes they’d end up in our house. Me mam said, she used to tell me about this. One day he managed to run across to my Aunt Lena ‘cause me mam’s sister lived opposite and of course she put my Uncle Jess’s dinner on the table and he ran and sat there and sat there with it and the Ds were running wondering where he’d gone and went through our house, of course there weren’t anybody there, they went across the road and my Aunt Lena said, ‘What are you doing in here? Here’s my husband’s having his dinner,’ she said. She started on him. Anyway, he said, ‘I’m very sorry Mrs,’ and off they went and that was the bookie sat there, you know, making out he was eating Uncle Jess’s dinner. Honestly, some of the things they did, you know you have to laugh about it really, you know. Things that, you know, you won’t see today anymore and that was how it used to be you know [laugh] and that and as I say we had a good laugh because my sisters were all good. I had one birthday I had a new dress for every day because they were only about a shilling. They were cotton dresses, you know and then I used to have little white socks and black patent ankle straps. That’s what we had and that and as I said our Lily was always dressing me up you know and that and I used to have a posh, a coat on with a little velvet collar but I never like velvet dresses ‘cause me mam used to have a lady that used to make dresses you see and me Aunt Lena living opposite she had a daughter. She was a little bit older than me our Elsie and she whats the name she used to, we used to have to both had to walk up to see this lady to get measured for a dress, a special dress but I never liked velvet. Oh I hated velvet. Didn’t like touching it, you know, so I never got a velvet dress because I refused to have one you see ‘cause I used to say to me mam I don’t like and our Lily used to say if she doesn’t like one mother let it be you see as if she was my mother and yet she created when I was born ‘cause she gave me my name because we had, well she was me mam’s cousin, not mine. She used to be always at our house ‘cause her mother was me mam’s aunt. She was a little old lady used to come with her shawl on every day from up where Salford station was. She lived up there and she used to walk down to our house and she always sat in a chair behind the back door ‘cause we had to, we used the back door more than any and she used to sit there in between that door and the sink. She never sat anywhere else and she had, you know, her hair done up in a bun. And she must have been old. Her name was Aunt Charlotte we called which was her name. Well her daughter used to be always be at our house, you see. She had a son and a daughter. And I tell you, well her son came because he used to be a coal, had a coal lorry bringing us coal and I’ll tell you our Alice said when I was born she said, ‘Oh what do you think mother if our Sal,’ that was me mam’s name, they always called her Sal, ‘Gives the baby your name?’ Well she hit the roof. Yeah. I’d never heard her go on before so much till mam was telling me how she shouted and went on. She said, ‘You’ll not call that girl that name,’ she said. Now our Alice said, ‘She could be called Lottie.’ ‘No way,' she said, ‘is she being called that terrible name.’ She said, ‘So there.’ She said, ‘You can forget it.’ So then our Lily comes home from service ‘cause she used to come at weekends. She was at an hotel and she come in and she, she said, ‘Oh mam,’ she said, ‘We’ll call her Irene.’ She said, ‘Oh, I’ve never heard that name.’ She said, ‘Well no, it’s all the rage now. It’s for peace.’ And that’s how I got my name [laughs]. Yeah. Yeah I was nearly called that you know. Yeah when the war broke out as you know 1939, September 3rd and what’s ‘is name you see our Bett lived opposite then. She got Aunt Lena’s house opposite and Aunt Lena had passed on and anyway you see she got married in 1935 our Bett did and he paid for us to have the electric in you see and then our Nellie came up with this here beautiful flakestone bowl for mam you know and that and of course you see then I had to go to work and I went to work at Goldsworthy’s where they made sandpaper and emery paper and it had a square roof, it did, at the top. Well, when we were there we had to do fire service at weekends so we always had it on a Sunday and the men used to do it on a Monday all day er Saturday all day. That’s how we did and we had to go up on that roof and if any incendiaries, if there was an air raid on or incendiaries were dropping we had to go and race and damp ‘em down you see with sandbags or get the stirrup pump and that’s how it came about and of course you see when I got my papers, calling up papers, me mam was in a right state. She’d never heard of women getting called up. I said, ‘Well it’s different today mam.’ So I had to go to the recruiting centre with my letter to prove and so he said, ‘What had you thought about?’ And I said, ‘Well I don’t mind the army, or the RAF,’ I said, ‘But I won’t go in the navy because,’ I said, ‘I can’t swim.' You know, I said not that I’d be wanting to go to swim but I just don’t want it you see. So he said, ‘That’s fair enough.' He said, ‘Have you got any independent relatives that you have to look after?’ And I said, ‘Me mother.' ‘Oh well you can’t go in one of the forces,’ he said. I looked at him. I said, ‘Why?' He said, ‘Well, we don’t take, we don’t like to take people away from any parent that’s left,' he said, ‘And I assume your mam must be getting on.’ I said, ‘She is.’ So he said, ‘Well you’ll have to go in to the civil defence.' So he said, ‘What would you like to do?’ So I said 'Alright then. I’ll go in as a warden.' You know, an ARP Warden and that’s one of the letters thanking me, you know, for being in it and having to be out when an air raid was on but I was fortunate because living in Old Trafford then you see with what’s ‘is name I could look at staying in my own street to keep my eye on me mam and that’s how it came about then and so of course I was an ARP Warden. We had a uniform and everything of navy blue. A blue shirt and a tie and everything you know because we had parades you see and that were the Home Guard and that you know and so we used to have to be there with the sandbags at the corner of the street and the stirrup pump and then whatsit but the men were very good to me. I was the only woman in it and the men were very good. They taught me how to play darts in my spare time and that’s how I come to play darts. Through these men. And one of them used to always come around to see if I was alright when there was a raid on. I was managing you know to get down the street and put a sandbag on it or if it got to be a bit more to get the stirrup pump and that and do in the night.
CH: It was quite dangerous what you were doing then?
IH: Yeah. It, well it says there about danger you know and all that but you don’t think of that when you’re young. All you think of you’re doing a job for your country. Standing up for your country against flaming Hitler, you see but the other story’s better when I, when we got the Blitz ’cause no what’s its went. No sirens went on that Sunday night.
CH: Were you still working as an ARP Warden then?
IH: Oh yes you still had to go to work oh yeah. And that’s how you come to have to help over the factory to go up on the roof to put fires out. We did you know ‘cause you were that and that that was your job instead of racing off to my depot when it come on in the daytime I had to attend to the factory and do, you know. Do that you see, we did. When I think I can’t climb up one step now and I used to have to be up on the roof [laughs] but you could see for miles all around Manchester and everywhere you see and that and as I say on the night that the Blitz came it was near Christmas, 21st of December and we’d just finished us tea of a Sunday. Well I was just clearing the table ‘cause as I say we always had to sit at a table. Me mam was just washing up the few pots and all of a sudden I thought that sounds like a plane. So I thought I’d carry on. Anyway, all of a sudden bump. Oh I thought, ‘Oh my God.' I said to me mam, I said, ‘Here’s the enemy.' She said, ‘What’s that?’ I said, ‘I know the sirens haven’t gone' I said 'But they’re we are. They’re on us,’ which they did. We got no siren so we couldn’t get to the shelter ‘cause we had to come out of there to get right up to the top road you see ‘cause they were going to build flats and when the war started they turned them into underground shelters. This is what it was and so therefore I said, ‘there’s no good us going out mam,’ ‘cause we used to go most nights ‘cause they were very good the council ‘cause they gave us bunks to sleep on you see you know they’d fasten them together because the first time they put them in people turned them over [laughs] turned over so we used to have a laugh in the shelters you know and so of course what’s the name they fastened them together then. It was alright. Mam used to get on the bottom one and I used to climb on the top one you see and our neighbour lived across the road, Nora. She had two little boys. Her husband worked away a lot you see and she always called me mam Granny Green which of course was our name and she had Tony and John you see, so of course on the night of the Blitz I said to me mam, ‘Well I’ll go under the table. It might be safe there,’ and I said, ‘You sit in the coal house,’ which was under the stairs, on the chair. I said, ‘At least it might help.’ Well we sat there and the bombs was coming down oh it was terrible. Really, really terrible. I kept thinking, ‘Oh God has it got my name on it?’ You know. You did all these things. I said to me mam, ‘I can’t stop under here mam,’ I said, ‘I can smell burning.' So she said, ‘You can? I said, ‘Yeah. Come on,‘ I said, ‘We’ll sit on the stairs.’ Well when I sat on the stairs I smelt it more so I crept up the stairs and looked and I thought, ‘Oh my God. The roof’s on fire.’ It was incendiaries all on the roofs and then of course you see as we sat there all of a sudden the flipping house shook as if it was coming on top of us and it was an oil bomb been thrown out of a plane and it dropped next door it did and of course it shook the house. It was terrible. All the windows shot out. I said to me mam, ‘Oh God.’ We prayed, I’ll tell you. Ever so hard. We thought this is our end. We did. Me mam said, ‘You climb up that machine, sewing machine on the window and you try and get out of that window and don’t cut yourself.’ I said, ‘What are you going to do?’ She said, ‘Stop here, I’ve had my life.’ I said, ‘No,’ I said, ‘If you’re stopping here I stop here.' I said, ‘If we go,’ [tearful] sorry. I said, ‘We go together,’ and that so anyway we’re there and then we could hear the others shouting in the street, ‘Please help us. Help us,’ you know and we heard some men and I thought, ‘Oh God shall I get this door open,’ So I got the axe and was banging on the door because with the bomb it had lodged the door and it wouldn’t open and that so of course I kept banging and somebody shouted, ‘Is somebody there?’ So I said, ‘Yes it’s me and me mother,’ I said, ‘And we can’t get the door open to get out,’ I said, ‘And we’re on fire upstairs.’ He said, ‘Yes, we know lass’ he said, 'Anyway, we’ll try this side hammering and you bang your side with that hammer,’ and that was how I got the door open you see. Well, we come out and there was Nora standing there with the two children shouting, ‘Granny Green. Where are you Granny Green?’ ’Cause we used to go to the shelter together so of course I said, ‘We’re here Nora, we’re alright.’ So of course when we got outside I thought, ‘Oh God this must be hell,’ you know, when you saw the blazing and all the smell and that from the bombs that was coming down so I picked up little’en, her little boy Johnny and put him under my coat. Me mam has her shawl on you see. They wore shawls then and she had, Nora had Tony, the one a bit bigger and so we set off to get up to the shelters while it was bombing you see ‘cause we didn’t know any other and the smell was terrible you know what they put in the bombs and all we could hear was the fella saying, different fellas shouting, wardens, ‘Keep against the wall.’ You had to come out of our street, go over Regent Street and up another little street to get to the main road so of course we kept against the wall. We couldn’t go fast anyway because I had got Johnny, me mam wasn’t very good on her legs and she, Nora had got Tony so I crept along the walls like that till we got to the main road and I thought oh God look at it. All the blazing you know so we tried to keep the kids away from it. We crossed the road finally and there was like a wooden board, you know where they put the wood up to stop people going in and there was so much gravel on the floor and then the pavement come so of course when we just got that side and we stopped for a breath to get me breath, well me mam did anyway and all of a sudden Nora fainted. I thought, ‘Oh my God what am I going to do?’ So I grabbed Tony, pushed him under me mam’s shawl and she kept him under her shawl and I thought well I can’t pick her up. I can’t help her and all of a sudden a fella, it must have been God. This fella come running up in a uniform I think he must have been a bus driver or something he said, ‘Don’t worry lass,’ he said, ‘I’ll take her to sick bay,’ and he picked her up and he said, ‘Whatever you do don’t move.’ I looked at him and said, ‘Don’t move?’ ‘No. No, don’t move and keep them children close to you. Don’t let ‘em say anything. Just stay there like statues,’ he said, ‘Else they’ll shoot ya’ I said. ‘You what?’ I said, ‘We haven’t been invaded have we?’ And then the fella went running off with Nora you see and I thought, ‘My God, they must have come down in parachutes.’ You know, you didn’t know what to think. So I said to mam, ‘Don’t say anything mam. Just let us stand here like statues and keep Tony hidden and I’ll keep Johnny hidden.’ Well, all of a sudden I looked up the road and I thought what on earth’s this coming ‘cause I’d never seen a plane as low as that and it was one of their planes and it had been hit and it was on fire you know near the, in between it must have been because the pilot was trying to get it off the floor. This was what he was trying to do. Of course the one who was shooting was a rear gunner. He was going berserk with the machine gun. He was spinning it one way and then another. Well bullets were falling on the pavement in front of us and I thought oh my god we’re going to be, you know, shot. That we’ve got out of the house. We’ve come all this way up here. Now it’s going to be our end against this barrier. Anyway, we kept still and of course the fella kept trying to get his plane up. Mind you he didn’t because it ended up in the cotton mill that was blazing what they’d bombed it got so far and of course it dived in there and that was it. But oh, so of course then we’re still stood there and the fella come running back. He said, ‘You’re alright?’ And I said, ‘Yes, thank you.’ I said, ‘How did you know?’ ‘Well I was further up the road,' he said, ‘Duck, I left my bus up there blazing,’ he said and, ‘Therefore' he said 'I came running down to get to the shelter myself when I saw the predicament you were in.’ I never knew the man. I never knew his name even to thank him. I kept saying, ‘Oh thanks ever so much. You saved us,’ which he did really because we could have all been shot and then of course he said, ‘Come on, I’ll take the kiddies to their mother in the sick bay.’ So he took the two kids, two little boys to their mam and then me and me mam, got round and as we got down into the shelter this other sister Emily that lived near us she fainted ‘cause she thought we’d been killed ‘cause somebody had said our street had gone up which of course it did and that was how it went and then of course then they brought us a cup of tea. The WRVS, they were in there and that so of course when we came out when the all clear went I came out to devastation. Yeah. When the all clear went we came out the shelter to devastation. Houses and probably looked like, I don’t know. You thought they’d all been knocked over like dominoes and so of course we got to our street, we got to our door and of course it had blown open and all that. The windows was all out and it was still burning. They couldn’t get enough water in Salford you see to get them out and anyway me mam burst in to tears and I was hugging her, kissing her ‘cause I was in tears ‘cause when you see your home gone that like and the beautiful furniture you had and that you see and then Mrs Leatherbarrow that lived next door she come up and then she saw hers and her and mum clung on together ‘cause they’ve been there all these years together and they were crying so I said shall we go around the back and see if we can get in any way there? So me mam and Mrs Leatherbarrow walked together and I walked behind and when we got in to the entry I looked. I said, ‘Oh we’re not going to get in,’ I said, '‘cause it looks like the ceilings already come down in the kitchen,’ ‘cause the kitchens was at the back. Well opposite, the street opposite weren’t too bad. Yes, it had a coal thing in it [Johnny Perrin’s] old coal place. You’d have thought it would have gone up with that you know next door but it didn’t and of course these two ladies, they were catholic ladies, they were very nice, really ladies. Two Miss Quigley’s they were and they had this beautiful house there and our [Ida?] got their house you see and they come out and they were saying how sorry they were to mam and Mrs Leatherbarrow. ‘We’re going to make you a cup of tea and you’re coming in to have a drop of brandy,’ which I thought was lovely of them. So I just said, you know, ‘I’ll be alright.’ She said, ‘You can come in my dear,’ she said, ‘As well, if you like,’ she said, ‘And we’ll make you a cup of tea.’ Anyway, they were talking and all of a sudden Mrs Leatherbarrow, you didn’t hear women swear, she started off and I thought, ‘Who’s she shouting at?’ and it was Hitler she was going on about and I looked at her and she said 'If I get so and so I’ll wring his neck with my bare hands.' I said, ‘What’s the matter?’ She said, ‘Look,’ and when I looked her Christmas puddings were stuck to the wall outside [laughs] and they were just there stuck like that. I think it was three or four. The plate, the basin was smashed on the floor. The blast of the bomb had shot 'em out the bloody kitchen and they’d stuck on the wall in the entry. Well I started laughing. I couldn’t help it but then of course, we all laughed then. It seemed [it was coming up] through the tears but oh it was funny. I’ll never forget seeing them Christmas puddings. It was if they’d been thrown 'em at the wall and it stuck there, you know well she did and surely if she’d spotted him she’d have gone for him and wrung his neck. She would honest to God, when she turned around, I never noticed the puddings when I first went down the entry in our house and hers and I tell you we were busy looking if we could get in the back way, you know, like you do, thinking well I might rescue something and so of course that’s what happened, she’d spun around and spotted 'em. Well she, of course it broke it then. We was all laughing ‘cause it did, they did look funny and that’s what our Michelle meant, because you know, it was so funny seeing Christmas puddings pinned to a wall you know and of course [laugh] we started laughing and that helped them all to laugh. Well me mam and Mrs Leatherbarrow and the two Quigley ladies and that. We tried to get in at the back but the ceiling upstairs had come down on the, you know on to the bottom and that so we could have got in but you’d be stood on a lot of rubble. You’d have to be careful. And well we did get in me and our Emily and our Emily stood on one side and she passed me some pots and things to save but I wish we’d gone and tried to get in the front. Anyway, I thought when we went home I thought I’ve got to get me mam something else you know I’m saying to myself. I thought I’ll get in. I’ll go around the front so of course I went around the front. People were saying, ‘You can’t go there.’ I said, ‘I can,’ I said, ‘It’s our house,’ I said to this fella ’cause it was our house after all whether it was on fire or not. He said, ‘You’ll get burned.' I said, ‘I won’t. Clear off,’ I said. I was that mad. I was only, I know mam would have said I was rude and played hell but anyway, I ran in, got myself on the table in the middle and I thought, ‘Oh I’ll have to get her that flakestone bowl,’ so I got it, I hooked it off the thing but I didn’t dare take the rose down because I didn’t know if the ceiling would come down on me you see so I thought I’ve got a flakestone bowl with the chains in it and that mirror and that mirror was in the front room yes yeah ever since I was a little girl. Must be a hundred years old or more. And I know that the flakestone bowl was bought in 1935 but I don’t know whether I can get it out for you. It’s in the what’s the name to show you. If you come with me in my bedroom.
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So therefore after I got these things for me mam she come around you see at the front, her and Mrs [Leatherbarrow] and I said, 'Look mam, I’ve got you these,’ and she said, ‘Oh bless you.’ I said, ‘Well you’ve got to have some 'at, mam,’ I said, ‘Out of it.’ Anyway then my sister who lived in Old Trafford she came all the way from Old Trafford ‘cause she’d been told that Salford had caught it, you know. They hadn’t. So our Bett came and she’d got a baby ‘cause our Valerie was born on the Friday as the war broke out on the Sunday so she’d got our Valerie see. She’s still living, our Valerie. I’ve been to see her this last year. Our Simon took me. I’d never been before so I’ve not seen them for, getting on for over seventy years and ‘cause her brother had turned up one day on a motorbike, our Jamie and he went over to number 8 where I lived when we first moved in you see as a family then and I moved in number 8 you see and he was at number 8 looking all around and Ann next door, she said, ‘Can I help you?’ And he said ‘Yes, I’m looking for my Auntie Irene.’ She said, ‘Oh she don’t live here now,’ she said, ‘Since your Uncle Stan died,’ she said, ‘She lives over there at number 4.’ Well Ann, it was a bank holiday and Ann shouted over the road, ‘Rene you’ve got a visitor.’ ‘Oh,’ I said, ‘Have I?’ ‘Yes,’ she said, ‘It’s your Jamie.’ Well for a minute I couldn’t think who. I thought, ‘Who’s our Jamie?’ You know and of course when he put his head around the corner he said, ‘Oh Auntie Irene' and we were both there daft as anything but you can’t help it can you when you haven’t seen anybody for all them years and it was like when our Simon took me to see our Valerie ‘cause he wanted to go to Bolton about a bike, ‘cause he’s bike mad our Simon, and anyway he took us and our [Anita?] was with us ‘cause she’d lost Keith you see[?] and so of course when we found our Valerie’s you know at Hyde and it was up a slope so he left the car down and he said, ‘I’ll go and knock on the door and see if she’s in.’ 'Cause she didn’t know we was coming. So he went and knocked on the door and she come out and she said, ‘Yes,’ ‘cause she didn’t know our Simon you see. So he said, ‘I’ve brought your Auntie Irene to see you.’ ‘What? Where is she? Where is she?’ And he said, ‘Hang on a minute,’ he said, ‘She can’t walk up here,’ he said, ‘She’s had an accident.’ ‘What sort of?’ He said, ‘Well it’s her leg’ he said. So he said, ‘I’ll bring her up in the car.’ ‘Well I’ll get my shoes on.’ She’d been in the house without her shoes you see and so of course she had some steps. Anyway, they helped me up the steps so we had a lovely afternoon you see of course. And that’s when we told her that our Anita’s husband had died, that’s when [unclear] I said it was lovely to see you and she writes to me now, our Valerie and I mean she’s getting on because she was born in ’39 you know when the war, well it came two days after. Yeah. She did ‘cause our Bett [interrupted].
CH: You were saying that she turned up at the house when it had been bombed.
IH: No.
CH: Your sister.
IH: Oh yes. Our Bett. Yeah. She came from Old Trafford where she lived and she turned up. She said, ‘Where are you mam?’ I said, ‘We’re here.’ She said, ‘Come on, you’re coming to stay with us.’ She said, ‘You’ve got nowhere to go, you’ll have to go back to the shelter to sleep,’ which we would have had to have done ‘cause nobody, we had nowhere to go. The other people didn’t and so we went to live at our Betts at number 14 Hamilton Street. It’s one [unclear] of these, on one of mam’s papers, that was it 'cause that’s where we went to stay you see ‘cause she’d got our Valerie as a baby and her husband in a three bedroom so we went and stayed there. Well, I had another sister that lived in Little Hamilton Street. Our Edie. She was the eldest one. Well a landmine came down, ‘cause we was in our Bett’s shelters, and it was dressed like a man, this landmine. And our Jim, our Bett’s husband thought it was and he said, ‘I’ll have that,’ so and so and he ran out the shelter and as he did do it landed on where our Edie lived just in the next little street what was called Little Hamilton Street. The one we were in was big Hamilton Street. And it tied itself around a chimney and blew up. So their street had had it you see and Jim felt the vibration but they had thought it was a fella, a German coming down, you see, with a parachute and it was dressed as a fella. It was a landmine. Yeah.
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CH: Okay.
IH: Yeah. So of course therefore you see with what’sit we went to live with our Bett in Hamilton Street and then our Edie and her husband and sister and all their, they had to come and live with us as well ‘cause when that landmine hit it cleared their street. A small street called, small, Little Hamilton Street and therefore we’re what’s its name you see so we all had to live together in our Bett’s which was good that she had room for us and that you see. Anyway, then our Nellie came because she’d been her husband was the one that sent them Christmas cards to us, Robert and she’d I can’t think where she’d been staying. She’d been staying with somebody. She had a little boy, Harold. He was born the day after my birthday in September as the war was broke out and anyway she what’s the name so of course she managed to get this house in Old Trafford not far from our Bett’s it was, you know, and it was 2 Barrett Street and the street that Laurie[?] was born in you see and because what’s the name we lived there and she was on shift work our Nellie did, working for the force, I can’t remember what she did, it was something to do with the forces anyway. That’s what she did. Well her husband was called up the day war broke because he was in the territorials so he went. He went before Harold was born and he never saw that child. When he came back he was five years old, Harold was ‘cause I used to look after him when our Nellie was on shifts. My hours were different than hers so when I was at work she had him and then me mam had him for the short period ‘cause we lived together you see. So of course when Robert came back home he wouldn’t have anything to do with him. ‘Send that man away mam. Send that man away. We don’t want him here.’ So our, poor Albert had a job to get, Robert rather, to get little Harold to accept him but that’s it, you see that’s what would have happened with a lot of little kiddies wouldn’t it because you see the parents, the father would be away and that would be it, you know. When you think about it. So of course we weren’t so bad then. We got, went to live in 2 Barrett Street, you see and that and that is just a field today. Our Simon had to go to Bolton. He wanted to see a bike. He’s nearly fifty you know, me grandson. Like Michelle. And he what’s the name, there that’s Michelle’s wedding up there. And he comes and looks after me and everything you know. Takes us out and all that and I’ve got into to all the bi-cycling things that he does on telly. Yeah. So that’s what we did and I tell you then we were put in for, my sister did it for her to get the money for her house and then she rang me up from Old Trafford when they come to live in here and she said, ‘Oh they’re paying out. You’d better send mam’s papers in and also put your own in to prove who you are,’ and I did and they all come back and it said sorry but you’re not the next of kin. Well who the hell was the next of kin? I mean there was only me and I put down you know my marriage licence I sent, and my birth certificate so we never got a penny of it.
CH: Your mother didn’t get anything either.
IH: No. Nothing. Because it was her papers I sent in ‘cause she’d passed away, me mam had, by the time they paid out. She’d passed away in 1948 and it was getting on to fifty something when they paid out so me mam never got a penny for a three bedroom beautiful house that she had. Yeah. And I mean if you look at it, it tells you how much she would have got. Eighty eight pound for a three bed house but we didn’t have any money you see with the war you see. So, and I think we got five pounds to buy clothes for me and her ‘cause all we had was what we stood up in. We got one or two clothes from the Red Cross that was really very nice and that ‘cause I always wore Deanna Durbin hats. I loved 'em. Oh I did. And I got a lovely three quarter coat off them and that and I had a, like a maroon dress I’d bought, I managed to get and I washed this coat and it come up beautiful. Well I was queen, I’ll tell you [laughs]. I used to put this coat on and me Deanna Durbin hat, me handbag and it was lovely.
Because you see my first boyfriend was killed in the war. He was a messenger boy when it started. Biking from where he lived up at the Crescent at er, near Salford Royal Hospital they lived ‘cause that nurses place there that was bombed you know, they was all killed. All the nurses in it and they got a plaque on the hospital wall with all the names on it and Jimmy lived up there. I never met his family ’cause we didn’t in them days. You didn’t go, you know. And I tell you from being, you know, what, I must have been fourteen and he was about sixteen. Course he was going from post to post with messages in the war when, you know, when the sirens went and so of course he got his calling up papers and he went into the Royal Wiltshire[?] Fusiliers, Jimmy did and we used to write letters to each other and of course then he came home on embarkation leave. Me mam left us in, mam never met him. She used to see him on the bike because Nora did. Nora used to say when Jimmy Splinters and her get married we shall have a great big do in this street. Always called him Jimmy Splinters and of course he came home on embarkation when we were living in Old Trafford at 2 Barrett Street and we went to see Honky Tonk at the Gaumont cemetery, cinema rather in what’sit, in Manchester we did and he said, ‘Oh I wish I could stay with you all the time.’ I said, ‘Like everything else lad,’ I said, ‘You’ve got to do, you’ve got to go.’ And he said, ‘I’ll write soon as I best know where I’m going.’ Well of course he ended up at Burma didn’t he? And then of course he got killed. So our Bett, er, our Michelle does a lot and she said, I said I wish I knew if he was buried ‘cause I always felt he might have been killed in the jungle and left there, you know. And I thought if I know he’s buried I’ll feel better about it ‘cause I still to this day go down to our church on Remembrance Day and put a cross for him you see but I let our little Georgia ‘cause the school comes as well. We have it in our church on the proper day, the 11th, and so of course our Jenny used to take it off me and go up when, you know when they used to put the cross, you know, put the wreath up and now our Georgia does it for me. Took it up, you see. So Christmas, not this Christmas gone but Christmas before, our Michelle said, ‘Oh nan,’ she said, ‘I can’t take you to Japan,’ she said, ‘I haven’t the money,’ she said, ‘But I’ve got this for you’ and she brought me the photograph of the cemetery where Jimmy is in. Would you like to see it? Just switch that off then.
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I met my husband because he was stationed at Manchester you see at the time. On the Kings Road Barracks, that’s right, Kings Road Barracks and that’s how I met him you see ‘cause I met him through our Elsie, you see. My cousin. That was our [Nita’s?] godmother. She died at twenty five, you know, of rheumatic fever, our Elsie did. She never married. She was engaged. And then he died not long after. Her boyfriend. He didn’t want to live without her. He laid across the coffin. He didn’t want them to bury her in it. He really was in a state he was. Anyway, as I was saying that em, she introduced me to Stan and of course I didn’t take him home or anything and one night our Nellie came home and said, ‘there’s a good film on at the picture house.’ I can’t remember what they called it in Old Trafford. So I said, ‘oh.’ She said, ‘Shall we go?’ And so I said, ‘Oh I can do,’ ‘cause it was a night I told Stan I didn’t come out you see. You get found out you see and so therefore I go in with her to the pictures and I never saw him near the barracks ‘cause it was next, near to the pictures and of course we went in to see this picture and came walking out with our Nellie and he spotted me and he shouted so of course I looked around and our Nellie looked at me, ‘Who’s that?’ I said, ‘Just a soldier.’ I didn’t know what to say to her you see. And so she said, ‘Well you’d best go talk to him [unclear].’ You know what mam would be like.' So I said, ‘Alright, I’ll go and have a word with him.’ He said, ‘I thought you said you didn’t come out on this night.’ I said, ‘We don’t reckon to do,’ I said, ‘We reckon to do the washing,’ I said, ‘but it was our Nellie wanted us to go.’ So he said, ‘Oh alright then.’ So I said, ‘I’ll see you another night.’ So that was it. Of course you get a lecture then from an older sister don’t you? Honest to God. ‘You’re too young to be having boyfriends.’ I thought, well what wrong, harm is there, I said, ‘We’re not doing anything wrong.' I mean we only went to the pictures or something like that because we didn’t have any money hardly in them days. I mean I only got ten shillings a week and me mam used to take it and give you a shilling back and that’s all I had there. I used to give her that back sometimes and that but when you think about sometimes these things you know if you’ve got a bigger sister they want to boss you about and that, you know. And that’s how I met Stan. And then of course later on he used to come and see me mam and that, you know but me mam never wanted me to marry him. She’d have let me marry Jimmy because he lived where we did, Salford but she didn’t think it was right to come all this way out here to another place, another country, well it wasn’t another country but you know the older generation looked at it like that. Anyway, she did ‘cause she came for a weekend to see his mam and family near Waddington. Of course his mother was a, what was it, how do I say it? That’s not being recorded is it? Oh Christ I’d better not say it.
Other: You can say it mum.
IH: No, she used to go out with some of the airmen. Dad was there. His dad. Oh yeah because when they went out for a drink me mam was there with them you see and me mam was talking to the old, the old man was talking to her and anyway he said, ‘She thinks I’m bloody daft.’ He said, ‘She thinks I’m blind but I know what she’s up to,’ you see. Because she had two that didn’t belong to him but he accepted them [unclear]. Yeah. You know, that’s how it was. So of course that was awful in mam’s eyes so she didn’t want me to marry Stan and, ‘And if you go to live in Lincolnshire,’ she said, ‘Don’t you get like that.’ I said, ‘Mam I wouldn’t dream of it.’ She played hell because of that and that’s why she did. It was nothing against him himself. It was because of his mother and how she carried on, you know. Yeah. I mean I was dumbfounded. I couldn’t believe it you know that the old fella accepted it. I don’t think my father would have. Christ I don’t think so. Oh I couldn’t’ see me mam anyway. Because me Aunt Lena was a bit like her, me mam and there was another lady called Mrs Delaney. The three of them used to go out on a Sunday to the Regatta for a drink Sunday dinnertime ‘cause dad had done dinner and all that you see and they used to call them the three merry widows. Well they wasn’t really you see [laugh] ‘cause there was only Aunt Lena who hadn’t got Uncle Jess and that, you know, for year’s ‘cause she had about nine children me Aunt Lena and they’ve all gone, well they must have done. Must have all gone the same. Yeah. But you know when I think about it you know, you know she was quite alright with Stanley but I did tell her, I said no way will I go to Lincolnshire while my mother lives and that and of course Anita was born when mam was there at 2 Barrett Street, you see ‘cause I had her at home ‘cause I’ve got, I paid two guineas for the midwife, you know, in them days. Oh yeah. I’ve got the receipt in that box. Yeah. Two guineas. Paid the midwife for our Anita ‘cause that’s what you did in them days you see ‘cause if you went in hospital you hadn't the money to pay so you had them at home and you had a midwife come. Yeah. She was born on the Sunday. There’d been a thunderstorm the night before and mam said that’s what did it [laugh] ‘cause you see when I first started they said oh you’ll have it about the 12th of September. So anyway as time went on she kept popping down and seeing if, ‘What are you playing at? Are you keeping it?’ I said, ‘Yeah [laugh].’ Anyway, I didn’t. They got the dates wrong and she was born on the 29th and it was a Sunday and the night before you see, our Thomas, that was one of my sister’s sons ‘cause they used to come and stay with gran you see and he was all excited ‘cause he thought I would have it on his birthday the day before but it didn’t. She come on the day after. They used to pull her about on this stool and all sorts they did, our Margaret and our Thomas. Yeah. They were harmless [unclear] those two. Mam used to, when they were at Salford me mam used to give them their dinners you see while our Emily went to work ‘cause her husband was a brickie. I had two brother in laws that were bricklayers, our Betts husband and Tommy, our Emily’s and they didn’t work in the winter you know in them days when it was bad weather. They were off, out of work, you see. And so Jim went to Carborundum then down at Trafford Park and that and he was alright then, you see, but Tommy stayed as a brickie you see but they used to go and do what they called foreigners[?]. You know, they used to go in furnaces and things. They used to be emptied out and done. They’d have to go inside sweltering, sweltered they were when they let the fires out to repair them inside, you see. It was the only way they could do them. So I thought my God they used to have to take clean shirts with them because the shirts and things would be that wet you could have wrung them out, you know, when they were inside these things, furnaces sort of thing what they had to repair.
CH: Did you say your husband was in the forces?
IH: Oh yes. Yeah.
CH: Can you tell us a little about your life together when he was in the forces.
IH: Yeah well you see after we got married he, they got moved which is of course happens, you see and then of course he used, we used to have to write to each other then and he was up at the top of Scotland, Stan was, looking after the bombing they had to get these bombs on planes and all sorts ‘cause as I say it was called Mossban[?]. Well there’s no such place as Mossban so you see they must cut out all the names up there right in the top of Scotland. He said it was bitter. Bitter. The weather. And they used to sometimes have to sleep in tents up in Scotland. Yeah. Oh he said it was freezing and of course sometimes a bloody bomb would go off and kill soldiers and they had to go around picking the pieces up and he only told me it once he said, and I knew it was something because he didn’t sleep. He was tossing and turning and I knew there was something going on and I said to him next morning, I said, ‘What was the matter with you?’ ‘Oh nothing.’ ‘Yes there was,’ I said, ‘Because,’ I said, ‘You couldn’t sleep.’ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘I was never going to tell you but,’ he said, ‘That’s, these things happen up there,’ he said. ‘Many times the bombs go off. One of us is always blown to pieces,’ and they used to have to pick the pieces up to you know for them to bury them then you see. If the parents wanted them at home it was alright. They used to go home in a coffin. They never saw them. Otherwise they were buried up there. Right at the top of Scotland it was, you know. And I thought, God, it must have been terrible having to go picking up pieces mustn't it? When you think about it and that. Of course he was in civilians when we went to whatsit to live here. We went to live with his sister in law at Waddington and his brother was the baker there at Waddington. Henry was lucky. Henry went in the air force but he was stationed, he went straight to Canada in a cookhouse there. He never saw the bloody war because he never did no firing, no bombing, nothing and he was there all the years so he was very lucky and that, you know and when I think about it. It was Ethel’s fault. Ethel was sick of him not coming home so she went and complained to the commanding officer at Waddington camp and anyway Henry ended up coming home. He wasn’t very pleased. I think myself he had a woman there to be honest the way he went off. You know he really was mad ‘cause he was enjoying himself in Canada you see. Yeah. Yeah.
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Irene Howard grew up in Salford and describes her life there before the war. During the war she worked in a factory and as a fire-watcher before being called up. She served as an Air Raid Precaution Warden. She describes being bombed at home, trapped and rescued, during the Manchester Blitz in December 1940. She describes the death of her first boyfriend, how she met her husband, the birth of their first child and their eventual move to Lincolnshire.
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AHowardI170112
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Civilian
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
England--Lancashire
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1940-12-22
1940-12-23
Air Raid Precautions
bombing
civil defence
firefighting
home front
love and romance
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Howard, Irene
I Howard
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31 Items. An oral history interview with Irene Howard née Green (1925 - 2018), Civil Defence Warden Service and war damage compensation documents, identity cards and ration books as well as various Christmas greetings and photographs of family. She worked in a factory in Manchester during the war and as an Air Raid Precaution Warden. Her house was bombed in December 1940.
The collection was donated by Irene Howard and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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Howard, I
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-01-12
2017-03-30
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Irene Howard in mirror
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Irene Howard wearing pink jumper seen in a mirror which she rescued from her wartime bombed out home at 10 Tarbuck Street, Salford.
Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.
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2017-01-12
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One colour photograph
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Photograph
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PHowardI1708
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Civilian
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2017-01-12
1940-12-22
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Great Britain
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
England--Lancashire
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Cathie Hewitt
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Leadbetter, John
J Leadbetter
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-04-21
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Leadbetter, J
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166 items. The collection concerns John Leadbetter (1549105, 163970 Royal Air Force) and contains his log books, photographs and documents. <br /><br />There are four sub-collections:<br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1725">Leadbetter, John. Aerial Photographs</a><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1721">Leadbetter, John. Aircraft Recognition</a><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1723">Leadbetter, John. Canada</a><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1718">Leadbetter, John. Maps and Charts</a> <br /><br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Keith Henry Leadbetter and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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AIR MINISTRY,
ADASTRAL HOUSE,
THEOBALDS ROAD,
LONDON W.C.1.
14th November, 1961.
Ref. A.650903/44/AR8a
Sir,
I am directed to refer to your letter dated 6th November, reporting your change of address and to inform you that under a Royal Warrant dated 29th June, 1959, issued by Her Majesty in the light of the Navy, Army and Air Force Reserve Act, 1959, your commission in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve was relinquished with effect from 1st July, 1959, and you were granted permission to retain the rank of Flying Officer.
This grant of rank does not confer the right to any emoluments nor does it carry with it permission to wear uniform save on special occasions mentioned in the Queen’s Regulations, paragraph 214, a copy of which is enclosed.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
[signature]
Flying Officer J Leadbetter,
102 Victoria Road,
Pendleton,
Salford 6.
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Letter to John Leadbetter from the Air Ministry
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The letter relinquishes his commission in the RAF Volunteer reserve. Included is a copy of the relevant Queen's regulations.
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1961-11-14
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One typewritten and one printed sheet
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eng
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EAirMinLeadbetterJ611114-0001, EAirMinLeadbetterJ611114-0002
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
England--Lancashire
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain. Air Ministry
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David Bloomfield
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1961-11-14
aircrew
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Howard, Irene
I Howard
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An account of the resource
31 Items. An oral history interview with Irene Howard née Green (1925 - 2018), Civil Defence Warden Service and war damage compensation documents, identity cards and ration books as well as various Christmas greetings and photographs of family. She worked in a factory in Manchester during the war and as an Air Raid Precaution Warden. Her house was bombed in December 1940.
The collection was donated by Irene Howard and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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Howard, I
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-01-12
2017-03-30
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C.P.No 11-10.WD
[underlined] ASSISTANCE BOARD [/underlined]
COMPENSATION FOR WAR DAMAGE
Mrs SG Green
The Assistance Board are empowered to make advances against compensation for damage to clothing and furniture, and the following payment is being made to you to cover [italics] immediate needs only:-[/italics]
Clothing £2
Furniture £5
Coupons 30
15/8/41
In order to deal further with your claim the Board will have to investigate the damage and possibly have it valued. If in the meantime you need a further advance for essential clothing or furniture and you are still living in the same district , you should call at or write to :-
The Area Office, Assistance Board, Warwick House, Ashton Lane, Sale, Cheshire.
[deleted] Trafford Bar, School Buildings, Regent Street, Chorlton-On-Medlock, Manchester, 13 [/deleted]
And or show this notice.
If you have moved to another district, you should call at or write to the Area Office of the Assistance Board nearest to your new address and show or send this notice. If you so not know where this office is, ask the Post Office.
W.D.3
1st advance 27-12-40 £6 Clothing
2nd advance 18.3.41 £15 Furniture, £8 Clothing
[Page Break]
3.
PC. Balance Pre Act.
WAR DAMAMGE ACT, 1941 (Part II)
PRIVATE CHATTELS
INSURANCE & COMPANIES DEPARTMENT
BOARD OF TRADE, ROMNEY HOUSE, EAST
TUFFTON STREET, LONON, S.W.1.
Ref. PCS KB4674
Date 1.5.42
Claimant Sarah A. Green
For loss at 10, Tarbuck St., Salford, 5 on the 22.12.40
£88 :-:- Assesses MOUNT OF DAMAGE.
£41 :-:- Granted for distress or hardship.
£ - :-:- Premium deducted.
£47 :-:- Balance deferred.
SIR/MADAM,
I am directed by the Board of Trade to inform you that the sum described above as balance deferred is the amount payable by them in respect of the above loss. Payment of the balance will be deferred and interest at the rate of 2 ½ per cent. Per annum will accrue on the balance from the occurrence of the damage until such time as payment is made.
[deleted] A deduction from the amount of your claim as assessed has been made in lieu of insurance premium on the basis shown below.
You are requested to sign and return the attached form of acceptance. [/deleted]
I am, Sir/Madam,
Your obedient Servant,
GERSHOM W.DAVIES
1 per sent on the first £2,000
1 ½ per cent on the next £1,000
2 per cent on the next £7,000
[Page Break]
RES PGS KB4674
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War damage documents
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Page 1. Assistance Board making advanced payment to cover immediate needs only of £2 for clothing and £5 for furniture on 15 August 1941. Advice if further help required. Annotated at the bottom '1st advance £6 clothing 27 December 1940, 2nd advance 18 March 1941 £15 furniture and £8 clothing. Page 2 - War Damage Act 1941 Part 1 - to Sarah A Green for loss of 10 Tarbuck Street Salford on 22 December 1940 total amount £47. On the reverse - annotated 'REF PCS KB4674'.
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Great Britain. Assistance Board
Gershom W Davis
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1942-05
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Two page printed document with handwritten annotation on reverse of page 2
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eng
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Text
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OHowardI19250926-170330-08
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Civilian
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Great Britain
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
England--Lancashire
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1940-12-22
1941-08-15
1940-12-27
1941-03-18
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Claire Monk
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home front
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Howard, Irene
I Howard
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An account of the resource
31 Items. An oral history interview with Irene Howard née Green (1925 - 2018), Civil Defence Warden Service and war damage compensation documents, identity cards and ration books as well as various Christmas greetings and photographs of family. She worked in a factory in Manchester during the war and as an Air Raid Precaution Warden. Her house was bombed in December 1940.
The collection was donated by Irene Howard and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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Howard, I
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-01-12
2017-03-30
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[Customs and Excise Letterhead]
C & E Local No 3550
From Collector
To Mrs. Sarah A Green
Postal Address [date stamp]
194 .
WAR DAMAGE ACT, 1943
Dear Sir or Madam,
The attached form W.D.A.1 is returned herewith in order that you may answer Question 1 (full name) 7 and 9
and for the following reasons
You should attach your deferment note, deferment letter and any correspondence from the District Valuer and Assistance Board
Question 7 - presumably this advance was from Assistance Board please state @ (c) office when received
Question 9 - If your answer on form WDA 24 is “Yes” then the words “+2 1/2% as agreed 1/5/42 should be deleted and installed on WDA.1
Please reply at your earliest convenience, returning this letter and the completed forms W.D.A.1 and WDA.24 or, if you prefer to reply personally, please call at this office with these papers on Mon to Friday 10am to 4pm or Sat 9am to 12 noon
An official paid label is enclosed.
Your obedient Servant,
[underlined] H Rothwell [/underlined] Officer of Customs and Excise.
for Collector
W.D.A.21
Sec. 38372’1945 (104071) Wt 32463/471 10/45 26m (4) FJP 729
[page break]
Applec
W.D.A. 1
WAR DAMAGE ACT, 1945
PRIVATE CHATTELS SCHEME
PCS No. KB 4674
For Official Use.
Local No. 3550
Station MANCHESTER (EXCISE)
Date Received 25 OCT 1946
Application for an Advance Payment of Compensation to Avoid Undue Hardship
Notes. – (1) Do not use this form if the total amount of damage sustained is £25 or less. Early payment will be made, without application, in cases where the assessed damage does not exceed £25.
(2) Do not use this form until after you have made your claim either to the District Valuer (on form P.C.S. 4), or, if you are a Private Chattels Scheme Policy Holder, to your Insurance Company )on form P.C.S. 3).
(3) Interest is not payable on compensation paid in advance to avoid undue hardship.
(4) Any information given either on this form or personally to the Officer of Customs and Excise will be treated as Strictly Confidential.
(6) All the questions must be answered.
[inserted] X [/inserted] 1. (a) Name in full SARAH ANN GREEN National Registration No. N.P.S.B. 84/1
(Block Capitals). (State whether [deleted] Mr [/deleted]., Mrs., [deleted] or Miss [/deleted])
(b) Present Address 2 BARRETT ST Manchester [underlined] 16. [/underlined]
2. (a) Address at which chattels were damaged or destroyed 10, TARBUCK. St Salford.
(b) Date of Damage Xmas 1940 22/12/40
(c) Were you the householder at the date of damage? Yes.
3. Members of the household at date of damage.
Names (in full) Self. Irene. Green. ) now Howard.
Relationship (if any) to claimant D/ter
Age if under 16 21.
Whether dependent on claimant Not now.
4. (a) Have you made a claim to the District Valuer? (See Note 2 above) Yes.
(b) Please quote the District Valuer’s Reference No. PCS/KB 4674.
(c) If you have agreed, an assessment with the District Valuer, please state the amount £88-0-0
(d) If not agreed, what is your estimate of the loss or damage? –
(If you have any correspondence (including a Deferment Letter or Note) relative to your claim, please attach it to this form.)
5. (a) If any of the total claimed is due to children over 16 or other persons over 16, state the amount and to whom due. Amount Name
(b) If any of the children over 16 or other persons over 16 made separate claims to the District Valuer, please give particulars. Name
District Valuer’s Reference Number
Amount
6. Did the chattels damaged or destroyed include any
(a) Motor Vehicle No
(b) Furniture on Hire Purchase No.
(c) Business equipment No.
[15 OCT 1946 date stamp]
7. Have you or any member of your household received any money from the Assistance Board? If so, please state
(a) Amounts received £41 -0-0
(b) By whom received Self.
(c) Office or Offices from which received Private Chattels Board of Trade
[inserted] X [/inserted] Romney House
London. SW [missing number]
Please attach any correspondence from the Assistance Board.
P.T.O.
[page break]
8. (a) Have you received or applied for any furniture, household goods, etc., from your Local Council? If so, please state the value of the furniture, etc., still in your possession No.
(b) Do you intent to retain this furniture, etc.? –
9. (a) Amount of advance now requested £47-0-0.
(b) Please give approximate amounts you propose to spend under the following headings:
Repairs to furniture
New furniture
New curtains, bedding and floor coverings
New clothing
Cleaning
I am making this claim on hardship grounds., I am 66 years of age and see no reason why I should not now be [deleted word] able to obtain the £47-0-0, in view of the fact that people with Post ware.[sic] credits can cash them on a/c of age.
(c) If you are not remaining in your damaged home, how many rooms do you propose to furnish, and at what address?
(d) Will your household remain as stated at 3 above? If not, please give particulars of changes Yes.
[deleted] (e) If any part of the amount at (a) above is to meet the needs of a child over 16 or other person over 16, whose chattels have been included in your claim, please state the amount needed, and the name of the child or person concerned.
Amount [/deleted]T £47-0-0. + [deleted] 21/2% as agreed [/deleted] [inserted] X [/inserted] 1/5/42.
[deleted] Name [/deleted]
10. (a) What is your occupation? HW.
(b) Amount of Weekly Income –
From earnings 26/-.
From other sources None.
(c) Amount of any Capital or Savings, including Bank Balances None.
(d) Expenditure, e.g. Rent 13/.9.
Rates –
Mortgage Interest –
Insurances 2/-
School Fees –
(e) Income and Capital of any child or person over 16 mentioned at 9 (e) above None
11. (a) If you have suffered War Damage to your chattels on any other occasion, please state: [deleted] Date of Damage District Valuer’s No. Address of Damage [/deleted]
(b) If you or any member of your household has previously applied to the Customs and Excise for an advance either for the present damage or other damage, please state: [deleted] Date of the application The office to which made Amount received [/deleted]
I declare that the particulars stated above are true and that I and my household will suffer undue hardship unless the advance requested is paid.
I understand that I may be required to give further information in connection with this application to the Officer of Customs and Excise.
Date 14/10/46.
Sarah Ann Green
Applicant’s Signature.
(This application must be signed by the person who made the claim to the District Valuer.)
Have you answered all the questions on this form? If so, you should now send the completed form, together with your Deferment Note or Deferment Letter (if you have one) to the local Officer of Customs and Excise, whose address may be obtained at the nearest Information Centre or at the Post Office.
Do not forget to attach the correspondence. – See Questions 4 and 7 overleaf.
*Note. – If preferred, the information at item 10 may be omitted and given personally to the Officer of Customs and Excise.
Sec. 5726/1945
(103615) Wt 61056/746 3/45 60m (4) FJP 729
(103940) Wt 26454/145 8/45 30m (2) FJP 729
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Application for an advanced payment of compensation to avoid undue hardship
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Application made by Sarah Green requesting £47 on 14 October 1946. Covered by request dated 25 October 1946 from Customs and Excise requesting clarification of information on the form.
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H Rothwell
Sarah Green
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1946-10-14
1946-10-25
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Three page printed form document filled in
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eng
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OHowardI19250926-170330-10
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Civilian
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Great Britain
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
England--Lancashire
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1946-10
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Roger Dunsford
Steve Baldwin
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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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[postmark]
[postage stamp]
Mr. & Mrs. Hudson.
10. Moorside Road.
Kersal.
Salford. 7.
Lancashire.
[page break]
20th August 1940.
Dear Mother & Dad,
It is pouring with rain to-night, so Tony and I have decided not to go out. Instead we have done a certain amount of tidying up in preparation for the journey we are to make very soon.
We don’t know just when we shall start, but the time is not very distant, and we are almost ready.
It will not take us very long as you will realise. I cannot [inserted] help [/inserted] feeling a certain amount of honour has been paid when I think what a lot will possibly depend upon the result of all this.
Twelve months ago when I started on our motor bike holiday I did not dream that this was possible.
I hope I shall be able to let you know beforehand just when I shall be going. After that, I am afraid that news will
[page break]
be slow, and I ask you to be patient, but above all not to worry.
I know only too well just how you feel, and I do realise that it is far worse for you at home – waiting and wondering.
I am not afraid (you remember what I used to say about having to make a speech before a big gathering?) and my only great concern is my anxiety for you in this time of beastly uncertainty. I only wish you to understand that I am satisfied with my lot and do hope you will find strength in [inserted] knowing [/inserted] this.
I shall take away with me a lot of pleasant memories and the knowledge that you have both meant a great deal to me and that you have always shown first consideration for my welfare. I cannot have more than that. That is something that nobody can take away.
It is not the personal danger of this
[page break]
war which harms us so much as the things we have known and loved that have been taken [deleted] g [/deleted] away from us.
There is plenty of excitement for me which helps to nullify all this, but for you it is different, and it is here that my heart goes out to you.
May you at least be spared the horrors of the futile Nazi attempt at destruction. I say futile because it is so stupidly pointless and gainless.
Above all dont [sic] worry about me. I can only keep saying that if I could chose [sic] again, my choice would be the same. I am all right, and whatever may happen, that which really counts, and will count when the war is over, cannot be destroyed.
I shall be thinking about you always and will now say cheerio simply by wishing you the best of luck.
Until we meet again,
All my love,
[underlined] Douglas. [/underlined]
[page break]
[Post Office crest]
INLAND TELEGRAM
[underlined] Emsworth. Hampshire [/underlined]
[underlined] Monday [/underlined]
Arrived this place this morning It is near Portsmouth, & quite a pleasant spot. To-night at midnight I am off. Think of me tomorrow at breakfast time. The first stage of my journey should then be complete
All love, Douglas.
P.T.O.
[page break]
Would you kindly send 25/- of this to [inserted] Sgt. [/inserted] [underlined] H. Bowers 4. Oak Rd Crumpsall. [/underlined] & say it is his share of the [indecipherable word] spoils. Just a wee note to tell him I have gone away & he will understand. The remainder, please put away for me. Thank you.
[underlined] Douglas [/underlined]
Please excuse hurry. I know you will understand.
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Douglas Hudson letter to parents and telegram sent before departure abroad
Description
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Letter to parents saying they are ready to depart but do not know where and when. Shows concern over uncertainty and writes of regard for parents and they should not worry about him. Telegram announces that he has arrived at Emsworth near Portsmouth and will be departing at midnight. Asks recipient to send 25 shillings to a colleague.
Date
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1940-08-20
Format
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Three page handwritten letter and envelope, two page handwritten telegram and handwritten note.
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudson(Fam)400820-01
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Greater Manchester
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
England--Emsworth
England--Sussex
England--Hampshire
England--Lancashire
Temporal Coverage
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1940-08
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
David Bloomfield
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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
Rights
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Hudson, JD
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[postmark] [ink stamp]
[underlined] PRISONERS OF WAR POST [/underlined]
Sept. 1st 1940
MR. H.E. HUDSON
10. MOORSIDE ROAD.
KERSAL.
SALFORD. 7.
LANCASHIRE.
ANGLETERRE.
[censor label] J.M.E
[page break]
[censor label] P.C. 66
OPENED BY
[page break]
[Red Cross rubber stamp]
J.D.HUDSON. (SGT. CHEF)
CAMP DE SEJOUR SUIRVEILLÉ
S/COUVERT COMMANDANT D’ARMES
LE KEF
TUNISIE
NORD AFRIQUE.
Sunday. 1st Sept. 1940.
My Dear Mother & Dad,
I am writing this letter to you on Sunday afternoon with the very sincere hope that it will reach you all right.
I am perfectly well and so are the other two, and although we had to arrive in this part of Africa we were in no way hurt. I am trying to make this letter as simple as possible because they only speak French and Arabic here and I do not wish to write anything
[page break]
2.
which might prevent this letter being delivered.
I do hope that you are both keeping well and I do trust that you will have been informed previously where we were and that we were safe.
The climate here is about the same as our hot summer weather, so far no hotter. Grapes, figs, olives & peaches grow all over the place but there is no green grass, plenty of rough mountains.
We managed to swim in the sea at first, which was terrifically salty & quite warm, but more inland there is no swimming. I think that
[page break]
3.
the least [deleted] is [/deleted] I say, the better.
We do some of our own cooking now & by that means can prepare English food. There is plenty of bread, and eggs & tomatoes seem to be plentiful. Fortunately we can now make tea – how we missed that at first.
The officials here are very kind, they cannot speak French, & accordingly we have to make every effort to improve ours. We fully appreciate their position & I am sure they appreciate ours.
I am not going to write a lot because I do want this letter to get through to you. This is the most important because it lets you
[page break]
4.
know that we are safe.
There is no need to say how glad I shall be when the time does arrive to come home again. At the moment I feel to be just an idle onlooker, quite helpless & I do hope you are both safe. I get a French newspaper each day & therefore learn some things.
I expect if you wish to write back it will be best to enquire from the Red Cross. It may take a long time.
I must say cheerio now. Remember me to everybody concerned & explain that I am interned here but quite well. I am O.K. for cigarettes & clothes etc so
[page break]
Do not worry about sending anything. Whether I shall be moved from here I do not know.
Hoping that this letter will arrive safely, and that you are both keeping well and cheery.
Good-bye for the present. and all the best of luck.
Love
Douglas.
[page break]
[card game score card]
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Title
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
An account of the resource
Writing from Tunisia that he is perfectly well as are the others. He is keeping letter simple in order not to write anything that may prevent the letter being delivered. Mentions the current climate and availability of grapes, figs, olives and peaches but no green grass. Continues to write about food and local officials. Mentions he will be glad when the time comes to go home. Suggest they contact the Red Cross to enquire how to write to him. Says he is OK for cigarettes and clothes. Enclosed is score-sheet
Date
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1940-08-01
Format
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Five page handwritten letter, envelope and handwritten document
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE400901
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
England--Lancashire
Temporal Coverage
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1940-08-01
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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Peter Bradbury
prisoner of war
Red Cross
-
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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
Rights
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Hudson, JD
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Transcription
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[post mark]
PAR. COMITE INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX ROUGE
AGENCE CENTRALE DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE
GENEVE
SUISSE.
[inserted] F.M. [/inserted]
MR & MRS HUDSON.
10. MOORSIDE ROAD.
KERSAL.
SALFORD. 7.
LANCASHIRE.
ANGLETERRE.
[page break]
Royal air Force. 755052. Sgt. Chef. J.D. Hudson
Camp de Sejacer Surveille
Le Kef.
Tunisie.
Afrique du Nord.
20-12-40.
My Dear Mother & Dad,
Once again a short p.c. to let you know I am still well, & I hope that everything is well at home & that you will have a happy Christmas & New Year. I shall be thinking about you. I am still without news from you & am wondering why because letters are getting through. Try writing by Air Mail & Ordinary Mail & try & send me a cable if you have not already done so.
Cheerio until next Friday. Again hoping all is well. All my love
Douglas.
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Postcard from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
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Writes that he is well and wishes them happy Christmas. Reports he is still without news from them and he wonders why as mail is getting through. Suggests sending by air mail as well as cable. .
Date
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1940-12-20
Format
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Handwritten postcard
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401220
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
Switzerland
Switzerland--Geneva
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1940-12-20
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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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.
Contributor
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Jan Waller
prisoner of war
Red Cross
-
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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
Rights
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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
Transcribed document
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Transcription
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[Post mark]
PAR. COMITE INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX ROUGE.
AGENCE CENTRALE DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE
GENEVE.
SUISSE.
[inserted] F.M.
MR. & MRS. HUDSON.
10 MOORSIDE ROAD.
KERSAL.
SALFORD. 7.
LANCASHIRE.
ANGLETERRE.
[inserted] Notice the Tunis post-mark. The first we’ve had. [/inserted]
[page break]
SGT. CHEF. J.D. HUDSON.
CAMP DE SEJOUR SERVEILLE.
LE KEF.
TUNISIE.
AFRIQUE DU NORD.
28-12-40
My Dear Mother & Dad,
I was very pleased to receive your letter dated 6-11-40 & one from Auntie Gladys dated 17-11-40, & to learn that you are all keeping well. I hope you had a happy Christmas.
I did very well under the circumstances & had plenty to eat. Please thank all the people who have enquired about me, because I am not permitted to write more than 2 letters & 4 p.cs. per month. I have written a letter to you today as well. Looking forward to all your further news.
Best wishes for the New Year & Mothers birthday. All my love, Douglas.
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Postcard from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
An account of the resource
Reports arrival of two letters from them and an aunt. Hopes they had a happy Christmas and asks them to thank everyone who asked after them. Mentions he has also written a letter to them.
Date
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1940-12-28
Format
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Handwritten postcard
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401228-01
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Switzerland
Switzerland--Geneva
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1940-12-28
1940-11-06
1940-11-17
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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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.
Contributor
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Jan Waller
prisoner of war
Red Cross
-
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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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Prisoners of War Post.
[postmark]
[VA7 stamp]
[postmark]
755052 J. D. Hudson Sgt Chef
British Prisoner of War
Camp De Sejour Suirfeille
S/Courent. Commandant- D’armes
LE KEF.
Tunisia
Nord Afrique
[page break]
[inserted] Received or answered [underlined] 21-12-40 [/underlined] [/inserted]
[postmark]
From
Mrs Phyllis Hudson
10 Moorside Road
Kersal
Salford
Lancashire
England
[postmark]
[page break]
[deleted] J. D. HUDSON [two indecipherable words] [/deleted]
[inserted] The post office advised me to put your address on the letter like this. So sorry about untidiness. A stupid pen. [/inserted]
J. D. HUDSON (SGT. CHEF)
CAMP. DE. SEJOUR SUIRFEILLE
S/COURERT COMMANDANT D’ARMES
LE KEF. TUNISIE.
NORD AFRIQUE.
Wed. Nov. 8th.
My dear Douglas.
It was with the greatest joy that we received your letter (dated Sept. 1st.) this morning. It was in perfect order with no deletions, & I’m ever so thankful to learn that you are well & that you are all together. We have made many enquiries how to let you have news as quickly as possible but there does not appear to be any quick route for letters to “prisoners of war” & I’m afraid you will not get this before the New Year is here. But all the long time that we have all waited so anxiously & eagerly for news, we have [indecipherable word] of loving thoughts & wishes to & from each other. Always now we are looking forward to peace & reunion. Happy memories, too, brought comfort
[inserted] From 10 Moorside Rd.
Kersal
Salford. Lancs England [/inserted]
[page break]
during those days of great sorrow & anxiety & the people around here were most kind & sympathetic. We had such lovely letters from friends & Vera has promised to write to you “funny” letters as soon as she has an address. When Hildred knew you were safe she came to see us on the Sunday morning & promised to write to you when an address was available. So when 1941 is here you should get letters from several people who can send great news to you. Today I’ve been to town & called to see Mr Statham. Strangely enough he has been up to see me (his card was waiting for my return) so I must send him a line to tell him you are safe & well. Ted Hole wrote a few weeks ago that he was coming into this district & could he come to see us. Of course I assured him of a warm welcome but now a [deleted] letter [/deleted] [inserted] later [/inserted] letter says he is not being moved after all. He wants your address so you will have his news before long. Well love I am so happy to know you are all right & to be able to tell you that things are going on practically normally here. Today is very Novemberish but the lawns are a lovely green colour & we have still got a few flowers in bloom. Do you remember the chrysanthemums from Mrs Hopwood. One of them has grown to be a bush & is now covered with yellow bloom.
I understand from the P. Office at Manchester that I can send as many letters as I like so you may expect them regularly after this. If this letter takes as long as yours to reach it’s destination it will be well into the New Year & all our love & wishes come [inserted] to you & our wishes to your companions too. Now love goodbye for the present. All love from Mother & Dad [/inserted]
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his mother
Description
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Delighted to receive his letter of 1st September and noted that it was in order with no deletions. Her investigations showed there was no quick way to get news to prisoners of war and suspected he would not get this letter until after the new year. Reminisces and mentions how kind people were and that there were many letters from friends. Catches up with news of family and friends. Comments on weather and flowers. Many people want his address so they can write. Is very happy to know he is alright.
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-11-06
Format
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Two page handwritten letter and envelope
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eng
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401106
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-06
1940-12-21
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Trisha Marshall
prisoner of war
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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] Prisoners of War Post [/underlined]
Kriegsgefangener Post
[postmark]
755052 J. D. HUDSON (Sgt. Chef.)
British Prisoner of War
Camp de Sejour Suirfeille
S/Courent. Commandant- D’armes
LE KEF
Tunisie
Nord Afrique.
[page break]
[inserted] 6-1-41 [/inserted]
From
Mrs Phyllis Hudson
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal
Salford 7
Lancs.
England
[postmark]
[page break]
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp De Sejour Suirfeille
S/Courent Commandant D’armes
LE KEF
Tunisie
Nord Afrique.
My dear Douglas.
No words I could write could express the pleasure & happiness your letter of Sept. 1st. has given to us. We have read it again & again & will soon be able to repeat it, without the copy. It is so good to know that I can write to you again after the long weeks of anxious waiting. All day today I’ve been thinking of your new surroundings. You would miss the fresh green grass & the trees & shrubs that are so much a feature of our English countryside but the account of the luscious fruit growing so plentiful sounds good. After four weeks of anxiety we learnt from the Air ministry that you were interred & safe in Tunisia. You will understand just how much the message meant to us. It was certainly a new lease of life for me. Ken [indecipherable word] said I looked 20 years younger. They were just coming in at 10-30 p.m.
[page break]
when our telegram came so Dad went out to share the good news with them. They came back with Dad & stayed here rejoicing with us until 1-30. They were marvellously kind to us during the time that you were “lost” & we miss them very much now they are away. Ken expects to join the “Junior Service” very shortly & Mr S. is going to carry on the business & is at present living with an aunt & Uncle. The house is empty. Your case & parcel arrived safely shortly after you went away but they are still unopened. I just hadn’t the courage to unpack the things until I had your own letter telling that you were all right. Perhaps you will be allowed to tell us how you spend your time. We should like to know. No doubt much of it will be given up to learning the languages of your present domicile. I read somewhere that Arabic is a very valuable language to acquire & I do hope that you will have facilities to learn the pure language & not patois. As you feared [indecipherable word] might pick up in Jaffes. I am glad you can get a French newspaper each day. [censored sentence]
Today here has been a very beautiful day with a lot of precious sunshine & tho’ the trees have lost their leaves & the gardens look sad & “brackenish” Kensal really did look very nice. The sunset was marvellous & I wondered if it were beautiful for you too. Now love Goodbye until Sunday. All love from Mother & Dad.
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal. Salford 7
Lancs. England.
The P.O. advised the unusual style of address in case the envelope got lost when the letter was being censored
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
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Is very happy to have a letter from him after long weeks of waiting to hear any news. Tries to picture him in his surroundings and wonders how much he would miss the green of England. Mentions being informed by the air ministry that he was interned in Tunisia and relates activity on hearing this news. Mentions how kind people had been and hoped he would be able to tell them about how he was spending his time. Hoped he would have opportunity to learn Arabic. [Three lines blacked out]. Comments on weather.
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-11-07
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Two page handwritten letter and envelope
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eng
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401107
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-07
1941-01-06
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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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Tricia Marshall
prisoner of war
-
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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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Prisoners of War Post.
[inserted] 2A [/inserted]
[postmark]
[postmark]
755052 J. D. Hudson. (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp De Sejour Suirfeille
S/courert Commandant D’arme
LE KEF
TUNISIE
NORD AFRIQUE
[page break]
From
Mrs Phyllis Hudson
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal
Salford 7
Lancs
England
[two postmarks]
[VA 27 stamp]
[inserted] 6-1-41 [/inserted]
[page break]
[inserted] 2A [/inserted]
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal
Salford 7
England.
Sunday. 10/11/40.
My dear Douglas.
Here I am again with a few more lines to tell you we are well & looking forward to having another letter from you. All the time I am thinking of you & hoping that you are all right. It seems a very long time since your letter was written on Sept. 1st. & I do feel so sorry that we cannot get in touch with you more quickly. It will be almost my birthday when you get this letter if it takes about the same time as yours took to come here. But at least we shall be looking forward to Springtime here – we must look forward all the time now. - & we are wondering how the seasons are with you – If your seasons are like ours, or just the other way round, as in Australia. We have had a lot of rain during this autumn. The last letter I sent was written during a beautiful sunny day & we’ve not had one since. Do you remember that it is just a year ago today that you first saw Miss Morton. I’ve had such kind letters from her lately.
[page break]
She seems to regard you as part of her family, yet. Kenneth begins his business career at Lloyds Bank tomorrow. When Auntie rang up Mr Hamer to enquire about things she was told that the Bank would be only too pleased to help a grandson of Mr Pilley. He certainly was much appreciated there. This is Sunday noon & we have just have a letter put through the letter box asking for a subscription for the Church at the top of Moorside Rd. The vicar has called 3 times since Aug. 31st. He has written a personal letter as well as the posted appeal & this is what he says, “I know that you are not attached to St. Paul’s church but it [underlined] is [/underlined] your parish church & therein, seven times a week, prayers are being offered on behalf of your dear boy & for yourselves in your time of anxiety. After all, the church does stand for something – it stands [indecipherable word], overshadowing your home, as a witness to the faith for which we contend in this stricken world, & for which your son offered himself in willing service.” It seems to be a very comforting sort of message & I do hope the censor will allow it to pass on to you unalterred. [sic] I hope it will give you courage too when you feel, as I know you often will feel – very helpless & alone. I pray for you always that God will give you wisdom & courage & patience & that He will keep you from all harm. Here’s Dad having his usual 40 winks & now I must away & make myself “beautiful.” With all our love, & Kindest thoughts for the other Douglas & Ken Riddick. Your loving Mother & Dad.
To. 755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp De Sejour Suirfeile
S/Courert Commandant D’arme
LE KEF
TUNISIE
Nord Afrique.
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
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Writes they are well and looking forward to another letter from him. States that mail took a long time and sorry they could not get in touch quickly. Wonders how seasons are with him and comments on weather. Catches up with news of friends, family and their activities. Mentions prayers being offered.
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-11-10
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Two page handwritten letter and envelope
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eng
Type
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401110
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-10
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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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Tricia Marshall
faith
prisoner of war
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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
Rights
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Hudson, JD
Transcribed document
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Transcription
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Prisoners of War Post.
Kriegsgefangener Post
[postmark]
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp De Sejour Suirfeille
S/courert Commandant D’armes
LE KEF
Tunisie
Nord Afrique.
[page break]
From
Mrs Hudson
10 Moorside Road
Kensal
Salford 7
Lancs.
England.
[postmark]
[inserted] 6-1-41 [/inserted]
[page break]
10 Moorside Road
Kensal
Salford 7
Monday 11th Nov/40.
My dear Douglas.
It is now eight oclock [sic] on Monday evening & Dad & I sitting by the fireside, - real Darby & Joan. & I recall those other Monday nights, which seem far away now, when you & I sat by the fireside, & enjoyed puzzle corner from the radio. Happy memories, this Mother wasn’t very successful at identifying the music. And all the time now I am thinking of you & wondering what you are doing. We’ve had such a lot of rain during the past month – not just showers, but deluges, hour after hour, which can become very depressing. This morning was bright & fresh but this afternoon has been very stormy. Yesterday I turned up the pages of the calendar to count six weeks to Christmas – surely the strangest Christmas ever. We are sad to think that we cannot get a message over to you before then, but you will know that we are thinking of you always & always looking forward to the time when “happy days are here again.” That they will come there is no doubt. We must keep on looking ahead
[page break]
all the time. I wrote to Miss Morton yesterday & today I’ve written to Miss Law. She has sent us beautiful letters since you went away & no doubt she will be writing to you when she gets your address. Did I tell you that Mr Hole has retired from business owing to ill-health? He has been at home since May & Ted’s last letter to us told that he had retired, tho’ [inserted] he is [/inserted] a lot better again now. The gold injections have given benefit to Mrs Hole & she is better now than she has been for years. Arnold became engaged last August, the lady’s name was not announced in Ted’s letter. Isn’t it funny to think of the naughty little boy that was now attained to man’s estate. I learn from the newspaper that my football hero has now retired from the game. Do you remember that he was very badly injured in a motor accident last year & he appears to have only made a very slow recovery. At the moment City are top of the Northern League. Now love Goodnight once again All love from Mother & Dad.
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp De Sejours Suirfeille
S/courert Commandant D’armes
LE KEF
TUNISIE NORD AFRIQUE.
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
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Writes of their activities and is wondering what he is doing. Comments on weather. Notes Christmas in six weeks and sad they cannot get message to him before that. Mentions letters they have send and received from others. Catches up with news of friends and family and reminisces on past events.
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P Hudson
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1940-11-11
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Two page handwritten letter and envelope
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eng
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401111
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Royal Air Force
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
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1940-11-11
1941-01-06
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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] 4 [/inserted]
Prisoners of War Post
Kriegsgefangener Post
[two postmarks]
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp De Sejours Suirfeille
Scourert Commandant D’armes
Le Kef
Tunisie
Nord Afrique
[page break]
[two postmarks]
From
Mrs Hudson
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal
Salford 7
Lancs.
England
[VA27 stamp]
[inserted] 6-1-41 [/inserted]
[page break]
10 Moorside Road
Kensal
Salford 7
England.
Wed. Nov. 13th/40.
My dear Douglas.
It is just a week today since your first letter, dated Sept. 1st. arrived from Africa. I was hoping you might be able to write each week & was looking forward to having another letter today but no luck. So I must just go on looking forward to hearing from you very soon. This afternoon I had a letter from Hildred. She said she was going to write [inserted] to [/inserted] you & also she was coming to see me when we got some decent weather. I suppose she will mean at the weekend. It has been very pleasant here today – sunny & bright – but rather on the cold side. Of course we must expect it in November. Tomorrow will be Uncle Jim’s birthday. It will be a long time since he did not have a birthday letter from you. I think he will be 65 years old & seems to be very much better in health again. A letter from Auntie U and Calvert yesterday told that she was going
[page break]
to Edinburgh to stay with Mollie & Kenneth until Friday week. There is a lot of fuss about Newbould Juniors, expected about Jan 19th. I had a very kind letter from Auntie Lizzie of Dewsbury. She says she is thinking so much about you & asks me to send love to you from both.
I seem to be rather at a loss for something to tell you. I’m so afraid of saying the wrong thing & do want you to get the letters. They do just assure you that we are all right here. Did I tell you that we enquired about sending letters to you by Air Mail but the man in Enquiries Office at the G.P.O. said it really wasn’t worth the cost as the Air Mail only went to Lisbon & would save very little time. I was surprised today that I could get fruit for Xmas puddings etc. & felt that my luck was in for once when the grocer arrived. It will be a very strange Christmas this time with all our thoughts in far away Africa. If we can just have news that you are well it will be a great comfort. Now it is Goodnight once again with always the loving prayer God bless you & keep you safe. All love from Mother & Dad.
755052 J. D. Hudson. Camp De Sejour Suirfeille
S/courert Commandant D’armes
LE KEF. TUNISIE.
NORD AFRIQUE.
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
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Notes it was a week since his first letter and had hoped for another. Catches up with news of friends and family and comments on weather. Passes on love from others. Explored sending letters by airmail but post office said it was not worth the cost. Mentions Christmas preparations and that their thought would be with him in North Africa. It would be a comfort if they knew he was well.
Creator
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-11-13
Format
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Two page handwritten letter and envelope
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eng
Type
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401113
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
North Africa
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
England--Lancashire
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-13
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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] 5 [/inserted]
Prisoners of War Post
Kriegsgefangener Post
[two postmarks]
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp De Sejours Suirfeille
Scourert Commandant D’armes
LE KEF
Tunisie
Nord Afrique
[page break]
[inserted] 3-1-41 [/inserted]
From
Mrs Hudson
10 Moorside Road
Kensal
Salford 7
England
[two postmarks]
[VA27 stamp]
[page break]
10 Moorside Road
Kensal
Salford 7
England.
Sat. Nov. 16th. 1940.
My dear Douglas.
Just a few more lines to let you know that we are thinking of you constantly & looking forward all the time to having another letter from you. One day this week I received some communications for the Red X. including a special label with which to send you a personal parcel. We are not allowed to send anything for you to eat (but slab chocolate, which is very difficult to get) so I shall wait a little longer to see if you [sic] next letter has any requests. The time it takes for us to communicate with each other rather adds to our difficulties & I am hoping with all my heart that you have enough food etc. & that you are all right. I had such a funny letter from Vera. She says she is going to write to you each week & no doubt you will have got her first letter before this one. She told that she had written ten pages to you then learnt from the P.Office pamphlet (the h is a misfit there I think, isn’t it?) that she was only allowed to use both sides of one sheet of paper
[page break]
No doubt also she has mentioned the “[indecipherable word]” which has been told off for duty on your account. Mrs Clayton came yesterday. John is still at Harrogate & was home for a week-end about a fortnight ago with a new girl friend tho’ Mrs Clayton doesn’t think that the old one is yet disposed of. She describes here as a real sticker. Well love there is nothing new to tell you except that we’ve had a right pleasant day again with a very beautiful sunset. Always my thoughts are with you as I watch the ever changing colour & I wonder if you too can still enjoy the beauty or do you get too much of a good thing? Mrs [indecipherable name] came to see me yesterday, to tell me they are coming back to live at the house again until Ken has to go away. Then they will remove altogether & have got Miss Davies’s permission to let the house again, unfurnished. There doesn’t seem to be any further changes at Moorside Rd. since you went away. Auntie Dorothy’s letter today tells that G.’dad is not very well again. A letter from Miss Davies some time ago asked me to give “her dear love” to Douglas when I wrote. now Goodnight love once again. All love from Mother & Dad.
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp De Sejours Suirfeille
S/courer Commandant D’armes
Le Kef.
Tunisie
Nord Afrique.
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
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Thinking of him and looking forward to another letter from him. Writes of communication from Red Cross with label for a personal parcel for him and discusses what they are allowed to send. Will wait to hear if he needs anything and is concerned of time mail takes. Hopes he has enough food and mentions other writing to him. catches up with news and gossip. Comments on weather and other activities.
Creator
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-11-16
Format
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Two page handwritten letter and envelope
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401116
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-16
1941-01-03
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IBCC Digital Archive
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prisoner of war
Red Cross
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Title
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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] 3-1-41 [/inserted]
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal
Salford 7
England.
Monday 18/11/40
My dear Douglas.
Monday night again & memories crowd around & I’m wondering what you are doing just at this moment. The winter days are rapidly shortening here altho’ we have not yet reverted to the usual winter time. Officially we are still enjoying summer-time & the mornings are very dark but the evenings are lighter. It is strange to think that when you get this letter the days will be lengthening again. I am so very sorry that I cannot get in touch with you more quickly. I know just how anxiously you will be wondering about us here. The one letter we have had from you so far has been a great comfort. I just keep on reading it & I do hope that you are still all right & all together. I’m glad you can make some English meals & that you can get tea. I never told you about the crab apples. We had very rough weather, with terrific winds, in September, & they every one blew off the tree. Dad kept bringing handfuls into the house & we put them in the fruit basket. But all that month of September we were very
[page break]
troubled & anxious & the regular routine of daily life was much disturbed. So the apples were put away & forgotten & they all went bad. They must have been bruised by falling off the tree so we must hope for better luck next year. Dad had a letter form Uncle Jim this morning – an acknowledgement of Dad’s birthday letter. They seem all right again at No 75. Uncle said he had a letter from Auntie Sara & one from David so it looks as if Marjorie is kept busy with her maternal duties. Young Diana Marion is about six months old now. The time passes very quickly & I do hope it is the same for you. Everyone seems to think you will suffer from boredom. I do hope not as we all feel so powerless to help in any way. The fact that it is 2 weeks since we got your letter implies that your writing activities are restricted & I do miss my four letters weekly. Tomorrow I am going to have a cup of tea with Mrs Clayton. Miss Howarth is staying with her at present &, as I’ve previously told you, John is coming home for a week on Wednesday next. Goodnight love & God bless you & keep you safe. All our love. Mother & Dad.
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef)
Camp De Sejour Suirfeilles
S/courert Commandant D’armes
LE KEF
TUNISIE
Nord Afrique
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
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Wonders what he is doing and comments on days getting shorter. Is sorry that mail is not quicker and notes they have only had one letter from him so far. Glad he can make some English meals and get tea. Writes of home news, events and family and friends. Hopes he will not suffer from boredom. Concludes with more gossip on her plans.
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-11-18
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401118
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-18
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
prisoner of war
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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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2015-06-16
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Hudson, JD
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Prisoner of War Post.
Kriegsgefangener Post
[postmark]
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp De Sejour Suirfeille
S/courert Commandant D’armes
LE KEF
Tunisie
Nord Afrique.
[page break]
From Mrs Hudson
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal
Salford 7
England
[postmark]
[VA27 stamp]
[inserted] 6-1-41 [/inserted]
[page break]
10 Moorside Road
Kensal
Salford 7
England.
Wed. 20/11/40.
My dear Douglas.
I am wondering if you get my letters regularly as I have got back to the four letters a week routine. Not that there is much news, but it just assures you of our constant thoughts & wishes for you & your two companions. I have only got one letter from you to date, but just keep on hoping all the time, & always looking forward to happy days of peace & reunion. I had a very happy letter from Auntie Mand yesterday. She seems to be thoroughly enjoying her visit to Edinburgh & she & Mollie had had a real “beano” doing the shopping for prospective Newbould Junior. Auntie says she should return home on Friday but Mollie wants her to stay over the week-end & she has written home for permission (as if that was necessary) Pool Eileen will be having a busy time with the house keeping added to her regular duties. She has a long day, 8 am to 8 pm but the duties are not strenuous under normal conditions & she seems to enjoy the work. Well love I never seem to
[page break]
have much to tell you. As you know we are very subdued, quiet folk, & just go jogging along. I wonder If you will remember that it is eighteen years tomorrow, Nov. 21st. since you started your school career. Little did we dream of what the future held. Perhaps it is better so. Many of us would lack the courage to face it, if the prospect were fully revealed. Dad & I wondered if we could arrange for the “Daily Mail” to be sent to you. They advertise a scheme for delivery of a weekly copy to any address in the world, & when we hear from you again, that you have a permanent address, we will make enquiries & see if it can be sent to you, as you are an internee. Now the day is over once again so I will make a cup of cheer & say Goodnight to you. Do hope you are still able to enjoy your cups of tea. God bless you & keep you safe. Many times a day, when I look at your lovely photo, my earnest prayer goes forth to you. May you have a great faith & great courage to meet what ever life may have in store for you. All our love. Mother & Dad.
755052 Sgt. J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp de Sejour Suirfeille
S/courert Commandant D’armes
Le Kef.
Tunisie Nord Afrique.
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Title
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Description
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Wonders if he is getting her letters and notes they have only had one from him so far. Catches up with news of family and activities. Reminisces about him starting school 18 years ago and not knowing what the future held. Wonders whether they would be able to send him Daily Mail newspaper as they advertise that they can deliver a weekly copy to any address in the world. Hopes he can still enjoy his cups of tea.
Creator
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-11-20
Format
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Two page hndwritten letter and envvelope
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401120
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11
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Tricia Marshall
prisoner of war
-
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Title
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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] 8 [/inserted]
[inserted] 6-1-41 [/inserted]
10 Moorside Road
Kensal
Salford 7
England.
Sat. am. 23/11/40.
My dear Douglas.
Here I am again with my little note of remembrance. Tho’ I’ve not much news it’s just to let you know we are jogging along. I have no news from you since the letter dated Sept 1st which arrived here on Nov. 6th. What a precious letter it is too! Yesterday I looked back at a few of your letters written from your last English station. – Such eager, hopeful letters they were – they always give me pleasure & comfort & as I have every one written since Armistice day 1939 they are a most interesting diary. This morning I’ve got a letter from Auntie Una enclosing “10/- for Douglas, either to send a parcel or use it in any way you think he would like.” So if it is permissible, I intend to try to get the Daily Mail sent to you for 1 year, but of course must make full enquiries before I take any action. Did I tell you that Vera wants to send you books but I have been waiting for a second letter
[page break]
from you, with a permanent address, not forgetting that these are unusual day, & nothing tangible can truly be called permanent at present.
You know love I cannot remember what I write to you from one letter to the next so if there’s a bit of repitition [sic] please forgive me. Mrs Clayton came yesterday (Friday.) John arrived on Wednesday for one week. In the evening he went (on [indecipherable word]) to see Louis Murray who is now “fixed” as you remember he expected to be, so I don’t suppose he & John could “fraternize” out of doors. Thursday John went to a wedding at Lancaster & his mother has not the slightest idea when he will be back tho’ she has arranged, provisionally, for them both to come here for tea tomorrow, Sunday. This morning is very bright & pleasant, a bit on the dull side but we expect that on Nov. 23rd don’t we.? I am always wondering how you are getting along & if the lovely blue skies which bring so much pleasure to me, become a source of trial & annoyance to you. I do hope not. Now love Goodbye once again. All love from Mother & Dad.
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp De Sejour Suirfeille
S/courert Commandant D’armes
LE KEF
TUNISIE NORD AFRIQUE.
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Description
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Just letting him know they are jogging along and still only one letter from him. Looks back over letters he wrote when stationed in England since 1939. Catches up with news of family and is still investigating sending him a newspaper. Someone wants to send books but is waiting for a permanent address. Continues with more gossip and apologises for repetition.
Creator
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-11-23
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401123
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force. Coastal Command
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-23
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
prisoner of war
-
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Title
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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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Hudson, JD
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[inserted] 9 [/inserted]
[inserted] 6-1-41 [/inserted]
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal
Salford 7
Monday 25/11/40.
My dear Douglas.
This is a bright November day, just such a day as we used to ride out on, for a couple of hours before the sun-set. And do you remember those beautiful clouds, the like of which we had not seen before or since tho’ you probably learnt all about them in your very intensive training. I should be so pleased if I could know how you pass the time these days – if you have certain duties to perform or are you able to do as you please. I try to picture you but the pictures are very vague & very probably out of all proportion, tho’ I do hope not. Our visitors did not arrive yesterday, nor have we had any news of them. As you once said, tho’ under very different circumstances, “it’s all very casual.” I wouldn’t say that courtesy was, or is, a war-time attribute. Well love I’ve absolutely no news. I just keep on writing my little notes, just for remembrance & tho’ I don’t suppose you will receive
[page break]
all of them I hope they do get through to you fairly regularly. Dad had a letter from Mr Brazendale this morning. He seems to be having a very busy time, but that is not surprising. Auntie Sara & Marjorie & Co. have not moved yet. And that reminds me, your last little note from England, written on a telegraph form, with enclosures, arrived safely & I duly sent on the tandem spoils to 4 Oak Rd. & had a very kind letter from Mrs Bowens. Have I told you before that Mary & John are thinking of getting married if John has to go away? I don’t know what Auntie Gladys will have to say about it, tho’ it won’t matter a great deal. Mary will please herself, as usual, no doubt. We had a nice letter from [indecipherable name] who is now happily settled at the Bank. He is a very busy young man, with music lessons, Sunday School work, etc. & seems a great deal better in health again. Now love it is goodnight once more. With all our love. Mother & Dad.
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp De Sejours Suirfeille
S/courert Commandant D’armes
LE KEF
TUNISIE
NORD AFRIQUE.
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Description
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Mentions what sort of day it is and wonders what he how he is passing his time. Catches upon news of visitors but says little other news. Continues with gossip on correspondence and news of family friends.
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-11-25
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401125
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-25
1941-01-06
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
prisoner of war
-
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Title
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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] 10 [/inserted]
[inserted] 13-1-41 [/inserted]
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal
Salford 7
England.
Sunday Dec. 1st. [inserted] 40 [/inserted]
My dear Douglas.
It was a very great joy to have your second letter dated Sept. 6th. yesterday Nov. 30th. 3 weeks & 3 days after the one dated Sept. 1st. I thought you would be interested to know exactly how long the letters were on the way. Dad & I are so thankful to have such cheering news & to learn that you have very agreeable company & also such kind treatment. This past week has been real winter, with very keen frosts at night. Today has been milder so no doubt we shall soon have the rain, which is supposed to follow 3 days of frost. Dad mowed the lawn last week & we have now got the garden tidy for the winter. The process was carried out much later than usual & we wondered whether it was wise to mow the lawn in late November. However it looks very green & fresh today – no obvious ill-effects of the frost so far. Soon I shall be feeling around for the little green noses
[page break]
of the Spring flowers. By the time you get this letter the snow-drops should be in bud & I shall have got all my lovely birthday presents & probably be getting all set for a Spring cleaning. It’s strange how we get used to things but we still feel very strange with summer time in winter. Today was a very light afternoon & we didn’t light up until 5-20 & it is only 3 weeks & 3 days to Christmas. Mr Morrison the Post-Master General broadcast an appeal today for us to begin posting now for Christmas. It isn’t a bad idea really. The Christmas cards would bring brightness & cheer to our houses. Not even war-time can dim the brightness of Christmas-tide’s glad message of hope. During the past week I found courage to unpack your case. Most of the things I’ve put back again to await your return but I am thinking of giving your socks & oversocks to men of the R.A.F. in the hope that they will mean a little comfort. We were pleased to see John last Tuesday. He looked very fit & well & said he would write to you at once.
All love from Mother & Dad
Sgt. Chef. J. D. Hudson.
Camp De Sejour Suirfeille
S/courert Commandant D’arme
LE KEF
TUNISIE NORD AFRIQUE
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Title
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Description
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Glad to receive his second letter, three weeks after the first. Thankful that he has agreeable company and kind treatment. Mentions current weather. Continues to describe activities. Postmaster general broadcast appeal to post early for Christmas. Writes about opening his case that was sent to them after he went missing and what was done with contents. Catches up with news.
Creator
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-12-01
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401201
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1940-12-01
1941-01-13
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
prisoner of war
-
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
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An account of the resource
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] 11 [/inserted]
[inserted] 13-1-41 [/inserted]
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal
Salford 7
England.
Thurs. Dec. 5th. 1940.
My dear Douglas.
Yesterday I had a letter from Eileen who said “I wrote to Douglas last week & do hope he will get it in time for Christmas.” So do I, but am afraid it will be a vain hope, if letters take as long to go to El Kef as they take to come from there. A letter from the Red X in London gave your address as El Kef. so I called in at Central Library & asked at the reference library for books about Tunisia & read that El Kef was very beautifully situated etc etc, but as I had to be at Mrs Clayton’s at 3.30 I hadn’t very much time. So now I’ve come to the conclusion that Le Kef is the French way of spelling the name of your present domicile. The Red X have been most kind in trying to help us to get in touch with you & at present are investigating your rights to receive newspapers etc. According to the G.P.O. leaflet, prisoners of war in neutral countries may have papers sent, but prisoners of war in enemy country may not so we
[page break]
are trying to get to know how you stand. We have made several enquiries including at the Head Office of the G.P.O. & replies to date are very vague & uncertain.
Well love no doubt by this time (I mean by the time you receive this letter) you will have heard from John & his very surprising news of Dorothy’s imminent marriage. You can imagine just how delighted his Mother was & is, about the turn of events. Mrs Clayton seemed awfully poorly on Tuesday with that dreadful cough she has each winter. I thought the shops in Manchester were very beautiful – many of them had a very festive appearance. Today is very cold again & it is many weeks since I started the order of the bed bottles. It’s strange to think of you sweltering in the heat. It is a great joy to us to know that you are all right & are being so kindly treated. We are indeed thankful. The idea of you growing a beard is funny. Why do it? Dad thinks it will be because the heat makes your skin very tender. Now I must write a line to John. I promised to let him know when we had another letter from you. All love from Mother & Dad.
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp De Sejours Surfeille
S/courert Commandant D’arme
El Kef.
Tunisie Nord Afrique
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
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Writes about others who have written to him. Mentions letter from Red Cross with his correct address. Looked up El Kef in library. Red Cross had been very kind to help them keep in touch. Investigating whether he can receive newspapers which the post office seems to believe those interned in neutral countries can. Catches up with family/friends news. Writes current weather and festive appearance of shops in Manchester. Comments on his intention to grow a beard.
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-12-05
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Manchester
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-12-05
1941-01-13
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Two page handwritten letter
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eng
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401205-0001
EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401205-0002
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
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Tricia Marshall
prisoner of war
Red Cross
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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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Prisoner of War Post.
[two postmarks]
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef)
Camp de Sejour Surfeille
S/courert Commandant D’armes
El Kef.
Tunisie
Nord Afrique
[page break]
[two postmarks]
From
Mrs Hudson
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal
Salford 7
England.
[VA7 stamp]
[inserted] 13-1-41 [/inserted]
[page break]
[inserted] 12 [/inserted]
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal
Salford 7
Sunday 8/12/40.
My dear Douglas.
This has been a very beautiful day & memories have crowded one after another – just the day for a trip to [indecipherable name] etc. What dear memories! I have just been reading that from tomorrow until the 16th the south will have the shortest days – the blackout time is stationary - . The joy to think that so very soon the days begin to lengthen again! Yesterday afternoon Dad & I had a trip to Central Library again, to try to find out more about El Kef, but the book we wanted to see, a 1939 edition, had been sent out for some reason or other, which I didn’t understand, so we didn’t learn a great deal more from the only other book of interest, a 1950 edition. What a beautiful place the Library is! but it does seem to me to have been a very unnecessary extravagance. About 12-30 p.m. Friday E.W.F. arrived & brought me a lovely present. Only one guess needed. I’ll leave you to imagine how much I
[page break]
shall enjoy it. Two weeks on Wed. will be Christmas Day – a very strange one indeed without any preparations of any kind at present. I wonder what you will be having at Christmas & if the weather will be hot & to you English boys, unseasonable. It is nearly four months since you had any news of us & it does worry me that you cannot know that “all’s well” with us. Dad thinks you will understand that the letters will take a very long time to reach you & on that account will not worry unduly. On Thursday we had the worst gale ever. The wind lifted the lid of the man-hole, on the landing, off & the floor coverings in hall & kitchen just ballooned. It has surely been the wildest autumn I remember. The score board in the Rugby ground was blown down weeks ago & is still lying on the ground. Now I must say Goodbye once again.
All love from Mother & Dad.
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp de Sejour Surfeille
S/courert Commandant D’armes
El Kef.
Tunisie
Nord Afrique
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
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Writes thoughts of the past and shortest days of the year. Mentions trip to library to find out more about El Kef. Continues with news of activities and upcoming Christmas. Worried that he has not had any news of them for four months. Comments on recent bad weather.
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-12-09
Format
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Two page handwritten letter and envelope
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401209
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force. Fighter Command
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-12-09
1941-01-13
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
prisoner of war
-
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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] Prisoner of War Post. [/underlined]
Kriegsgefangenerpost
[two postmarks]
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp de Sejour Surfeille
S/courert Commandant D’arme
El Kef.
Tunisie
Nord Afrique.
2872 Q.H.
[page break]
From
Mrs Hudson
10 Moorside Road
Kensal
Salford 7
England.
[two postmarks]
[VA 27 stamp]
[inserted] 28-1-41 [/inserted]
[page break]
[inserted] 13 [/inserted]
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal
Salford 7
England.
Thurs. 12th Dec.
My dear Douglas.
Today we have a real winter’s day – thick fog this morning & a very severe frost. And I am wondering how you are faring – if the sun is still shining for you & if it is comfortable & easier to bear than our severe winter. We think so much at this time, of all the dear boys who are facing the discomfort of this wintry weather, with courage & high endeavour, & our hearts are full of gratitude to “the few, who have done so much, for so many.” A memorable phrase which has made history! I had a very nice outing yesterday to Hale Barns in Cheshire. I went by bus all the way & passed along the roads that we have travelled so often & so happily together & I was thinking of you all the time. You will be wondering who is at Hale Barns. It is really a rather long story beginning at the time when you were reported missing & I was so physically & mentally ill. Mrs Clayton told a very sad story of a little girl of 19
[page break]
(wife of a soldier) who was expecting her first baby & was very worried about a home Our Doctor came in just at the time & I said if only I had known before she had gone away I would have given her a home & cared for her until she was well. (I thought that caring for someone in need would help to relieve the burden of my own sorrow.) Doctor had remembered what I said & came the other day to ask if I would like to help another little girl who was in trouble & I am expecting her to live with me for a few weeks from Dec. 29th. She is very sweet & pretty & was quite excited yesterday about coming to stay with me. It is strange to think that she will probably be away again & starting life anew before you get my letter. Mrs Clayton came on Tuesday, very much better in health again. She had not heard from John, nor had she written to him since he was home. Little John from No 8 is home today for Christmas holidays & I’ve been remembering how we used to count the days to your holidays when you were at Boarding School. Had a cheery letter from Mrs Holmes. She is hoping to have Geoffrey home for 48 hrs at Xmas. Lucky person! Now love Goodnight once again. All love from Mother & Dad (who is having his usual nap)
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp de Sejour Surfeille
S/courert Commandant D’armes
El Kef
Tunisie
Nord Afrique
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Title
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Description
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Writes of current winter weather and wonders what it is like where he is. Writes of boys facing discomfort in severe weather and full of gratitude for the few who have done so much for so many. Continues to describe some activities . Writes about coping when people were missing and helping others in same situation. Concludes catching up with news and gossip.
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-12-12
Format
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Two page handwritten letter and envelope
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401212
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1940-12-12
1941-01-28
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
prisoner of war
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Title
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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
Rights
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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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[inserted] 14 [/inserted]
[inserted] 28-1-41 [/inserted]
10 Moorside Rd.
Kensal
Salford 7
England.
16/12/40.
My dear Douglas
I am still eagerly awaiting letter number 3. & all this long time wondering how things are going with you. And I’m just wanting this old year to pass quickly away. I do so want to feel that once again we are “in touch” & I don’t suppose you will have a letter from me until mid-January. I told you that we enquired at the G.P.O. if we could cable to you but were not allowed to do so. I try to picture you in your new surroundings & hope you are well, & content as possible under the circumstances. At least you will miss our not too comfortable English winter with its consequent discomforts of chilblains & chills. Thank goodness, Dad & I are immune so far, touch wood! I had a nice letter from Mollie on Friday – such a long one. She seems very happy anticipating the arrival of Andrew [indecipherable name] Ian Newbould or Susan Caroline Anne Newbould. Fancy a baby named [indecipherable word]. However if it brings the desired good fortune “What’s in a name”? You know love I’ve written yards & yards of
[page break]
letters during the past week. Fortunately I made a list at the beginning & the names are being X’ed off very nicely. I had a long letter from John on Saturday. He told how he had written to you on a “huge” sheet of paper & I am so glad for you to have news from other people. This morning I had a nice letter from Auntie Lizzie enclosing p.o. for 5/- to get something for Douglas & we are wondering if you have any special needs. The old [three indecipherable letters] has been a bit troublesome for a few days & this a.m. the man from Frank’s came to look at it. There is something wrong with the switch & as it will take some time to get a new one we have to operate by pulling the whole plug in & out. I am expecting Mrs Clayton tomorrow afternoon. As usual she never has a minute for anything & comes in often very late. Habit of course. Goodbye love once again. All love from Mother & Dad.
755052 J. D. Hudson (Sgt. Chef.)
Camp de Sejour Surfeille
S/courert Commandant D’armes.
El Kef.
Tunisie
Nord Afrique.
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Title
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Description
An account of the resource
Still waiting for letter number 3. Enquired at post office if they could cable him, not allowed. Hopes he is OK and talks of English winter. Mentions letters she had received and sent to others and passes on news.
Creator
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P Hudson
Date
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1940-12-16
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Identifier
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD401216
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1940-12-16
1941-01-28
Publisher
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Tricia Marshall
prisoner of war