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Douglas Hudson Royal Air Force personnel document
Contains personal information and postings/locations from joining to discharge on 28 February 1947. Notes that he was reported missing on 27 August 1940, was subsequently interned in Tunisia. Notes he was recommended for commission.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A three-page letter from Harry Redgrave to his wife Jessie. Harry is impressed by the amount of food they are getting, but has not had much opportunity to see the local area yet. The training course will be hard work and he is due to fly for the…
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A two-page letter from Harry Redgrave to his wife Jessie. He has just been posted and describes his 13-hour rail trip from London to Prestwick. He has found that the accommodation and food are good. Harry is on a 16-week observer course followed…
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A five-page handwritten letter and envelope from Harry Redgrave to his wife Jessie. Harry describes the harsh weather, a trip into Ayr to see an ice hockey match and to the cinema. He includes a chart with his lesson timetable.
Letter to Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter from Harry Redgrave to his wife Jessie. Harry writes about RAF life in Prestwick. He mentions a trip into Prestwick including to the cinema, his first taste of haggis and how difficult it is to keep up with the mathematics. He turned down a…
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter and envelope from Harry Redgrave to his wife Jessie. He writes about the severe weather, including blizzards, and how it is interfering with training. Includes a description of the frozen river in Ayr. He also explains his problems with…
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter from Harry Redgrave to his wife Jessie. He misses her greatly and discusses home, family and friends.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter and envelope from Harry Redgrave to Jessie. He has sent her a present of a tartan skirt and remarks about the amount of homework his has to do.
The back of the envelope has been reused for household accounts.
The back of the envelope has been reused for household accounts.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter from Harry to his wife Jessie. He thanks her for the scarf. With the ground waterlogged, they are not flying but are spending many hours on plotting training. Also saw a theatre show and is going to spend his day off visiting Glasgow.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter and envelope from Harry Redgrave to his wife Jessie. He writes about his exam results, the possibility of Easter leave and the bomber that was brought down near Gravesend.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter and envelope from Harry to his wife Jessie. He writes about training, including a flight in a Fokker. Weather has improved.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter and envelope from Harry to his wife Jessie. He writes in great detail about his day's leave in Glasgow.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter, envelope and two-page typed document from Harry to his wife Jessie. He writes about training including two bumpy flights in a Fokker. He encloses a photo taken in the snow and his mathematical paper from the Air Observer School.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter and envelope from Harry to his wife Jessie. He writes about training and reminds her of bringing back kippers from Blackpool on their honeymoon.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Letter from Harry to his wife Jessie. He describes one of his training flights, what would happen if he failed his exams and meeting people from the Southend area. Jessie has sent him a scarf and he is sending her a jumper with a tam o shanter hat…
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter from Harry to his wife Jessie. He writes about sending her more money and about turbulence on training flights over hilly country.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter and envelope from Harry to his wife Jessie. He writes about practising navigation in a Fokker, taking his navigation exams and thanks her for the photo which has just arrived.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter from Harry to his wife Jessie. Harry writes about his recent examination marks, an engine failure on a training flight and several trips to the cinema.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter and envelope from Harry to his wife Jessie. He asks about home life and is awaiting the results of his exam.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter and envelope from Harry to his wife Jessie. He writes that he has passed his exam, about hearing of a friend who has been killed and how keen he is to have leave to see her.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter and envelope from Harry to his wife Jessie. Harry writes about buying a frame for her photograph, going to the cinema, starting to learn to play golf, plotting and an aborted training flight to Ireland.
The back of the envelope has been…
The back of the envelope has been…
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter and envelope from Harry to his wife Jessie. Harry writes about a navigation flight over Ireland and Scotland, his exams and a social evening with soldiers, sailors and airmen.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter from Harry to his wife Jessie. Harry has just finished his Maths examination and is very tired mentally. He discusses plans for his leave at Easter and tells Jessie how much he misses her.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter and envelope from Harry to his wife Jessie. He writes about his trepidation about starting to fly in Ansons and a visit from Air Chief Marshall Sir John Steel over whether their air navigation training was thorough enough.
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
A letter and envelope from Harry to his wife Jessie. He discusses his Easter leave travel plans, his results of a maths exam and flying trips taken by a friend at the station.