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529 items. Collection concerns Pilot Officer James Douglas Hudson, DFC (755052 Royal Air Force) who joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1939 and trained as an observer. While on route to Malta in August 1940 his Blenheim crashed in Tunisia and he was subsequently interned for two and a half years by Vichy French in Tunisia and Algeria. After being freed he returned to Great Britain and after navigator retraining completed a tour of 30 operations on 100 Squadron. The collection contains letters to and from his parents and from French penfriends while interned in Tunisia and Algeria, newspaper cuttings of various events, logbooks and lists of operations, official documents and photographs. A further 23 items are in two sub-collections with details of navigator examinations and postcards of Laghouat Algeria.<br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Elizabeth Smith and Yvonne Puncher and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br />
<p>This collection also contains items concerning Louis Murray and Harry Bowers. Additional information on <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/202827/">Harry Bowers</a> and <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/220410/">Louis Murray</a> is available via the IBCC Losses Database.</p>
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2015-06-16
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Interviewer: This is an interview with Mr James Douglas Hudson on the 4th of February 2011 at his home near Lincoln concerning his wartime experiences with the Royal Air Force.
JDH: What is beginning to please me now is the increased awareness that’s arising of what happened during World War Two in Bomber Command and by those who flew in Bomber Command of whom fifty six thousand or thereabouts gave their lives without counting the cost. There has been so little recognition for all this outstanding bravery and finally more is being told and more is being how can I say made aware to a viewing public or a listening public. We’re helped with the advance in techniques of recordings that weren’t available in the days of people like Group Captain, Air Chief Marshall Cheshire and Guy Gibson. They didn’t have the facilities that we have today. So this increase in awareness by the general public and particularly the younger generation is rewarding.
Interviewer: What made you join the Air Force, Douglas?
JDH: I joined the Air Force because I wasn’t particularly happy with my peacetime, this is 1939, occupation in in Manchester in the textile shipping trade and a colleague of mine had joined Fighter Command and was having such a good time flying Spitfires and Hurricanes and I decided I would like to do the same. So I made application and I was told, this is just before the war that junior officers may be able to live on their pay. So I queried this and I said, ‘Well, what do you mean by may be able to live on their pay?’ And a cousin of mine who was a colonel in the Army said, ‘Oh yes. That’s perfectly true.’ He said, ‘But Uncle Harold,’ that’s my father, he said, ‘He’d been able to look after you there.’ I said, ‘Well, Uncle Harold it so happens,’ I said, ‘Because of the depression in the textile trade is out of a job.’ ‘In that case,’ he said, ‘He would not be able to look after you.’ And he said, ‘You’ll be very unwise to seek a short service commission.’ So instead of that I made application through the Volunteer Reserves to do weekend flying and weekend training and this was in June 1939. So a couple of months after that war was declared and I was called up immediately and my training then began at Prestwick in Ayrshire. We were called observers in those days to be renamed of course navigators.
Interviewer: Did you always want to be a navigator or did you want to be a pilot?
JDH: Initially of course I wanted to be a pilot and I was told there was a waiting list forever. But I was told that if I wished to be an air observer which now of course is a navigator I would get in just as much flying which is true. And that’s what I did. Now, I’m jumping ahead now over a couple of years because I was a prisoner of war after this for a couple of years or plus and when I came back I was given the opportunity to remuster and if I wished I could remuster and undergo pilot’s training. I refused. I said, ‘No. I was a navigator and I wish to continue being a navigator and navigation is and was my metier. Although I say it now, perhaps I shouldn’t say it I was a good navigator and my books of which I’ve written eight are based on the title, “There and Back Again.” And it’s the back again which is the important part about it. It’s one thing to get there. It’s another thing to get back and to get there and back isn’t everybody’s good fortune. In fact, fifty six thousand or thereabouts never made that. I now at the age of nearly ninety five am sitting here in my lounge at home in Heighington near Lincoln talking to this lady. I’m a very fortunate person.
Interviewer: So you did the observer’s course at Prestwick.
JDH: I did the observer’s course at Prestwick.
Interviewer: And then went to Evanton for the Bomber and Gunnery School.
JDH: Went to Bombing and Gunnery School then at Evanton and after that, after completion of the bombing and gunnery in various aeroplanes including the Fairey Battle we were moved to Bicester in Oxfordshire where I was introduced to the Bristol Blenheim and I was posted to West Raynham in Norfolk where I did two months operational flying on the Bristol Blenheim. Unfortunately, we were sent to the Middle East and I had insufficient petrol to make the journey and crash landed in Vichy French North Africa where I was taken prisoner of war for two and a quarter years.
Interviewer: Can you describe that? The conditions that you lived in and –
JDH: The conditions under which we lived were appalling. The food was an abomination. It was based on the food they gave to the Arab soldiers but it wasn’t so much the food itself it was the filthy conditions in which this food was served up to us. Our living conditions were absolutely appalling. Overcrowding was a very significant disadvantage. We quarrelled with each other in consequence. You, you could be the best of friends, if you get six, eight, ten, twelve, or twenty of you all in one room ongoing tempers fray. And this is what happened and I think this is one of the most difficult parts of being a prisoner of war and of course, being taken away from operation flying.
Interviewer: It doesn’t seem to have been as well organised as German prisoner of war camps in that you know you didn’t have much recreation or organised activities to take your mind off the conditions. Is that right?
JDH: Well, we, we didn’t have so much organised activities. We were, we were able to do our own thing up to a point. There were no specific facilities.
Interviewer: No.
JDH: No.
Interviewer: You had your Red Cross parcels.
JDH: Had it not been for the Red Cross parcels I often wonder how we would have survived. When the Red Cross parcels began to reach us there were certain days when we would just ignore the food that was sent up to us and just live for the time being on the contents of the Red Cross parcels. The one problem was particularly in the desert I was a prisoner in the desert for over a year in the Sahara Desert. A place called Laghouat, about three, three hundred and fifty miles south of Algiers and when the food, when the Red Cross parcels arrived we had what was called the Klim, K L I M, milk which came I think from Canada. It was powder and of course when we mixed this, when we added water to it we were running into trouble because the water wasn’t fit to drink. And I used to, they also sent us prunes and we used to soak the prunes overnight in water and then add this Klim milk which had been what’s the word? Reconstituted. And of course, we were inviting trouble and we got trouble. We got dysentery. So it was an awfully difficult situation. Dysentery was rife. Dysentery I think was our biggest problem in the prisoner of war camp and we’d no medications you see.
Interviewer: No.
JDH: No medications at all.
Interviewer: You mentioned in your book about being depressed at this time. This –
JDH: Being depressed?
Interviewer: Yes. Obviously, the conditions and your dysentery and everything else.
JDH: Yes, because there was no future. We’d been taken away from the activities which we’d trained for and that was to fly operationally. As you will read on in the books I was, I had the good fortune to be repatriated in November 1942 and after five or six months of ground duties I became rehabilitated as it were and became fit to fly again and the rest is history.
Interviewer: Let’s go back to your, your time in the North African prisons. What did you feel about escape? Did some, did you want to escape?
JDH: I escaped twice. In the first prisoner of war camp, a place called Le Kef in Tunisia, a fellow prisoner Ted Hart who was another Blenheim man he and I we shinned over, I use the expression we use in the book, the shithouse wall because that’s exactly what it was. It was a filthy latrine and we managed to get over this wall and drop on to the other side and escape into the night. And I spoke limited French but we walked throughout the night, a matter of some thirty, some forty miles I think to a place called Souk el Arba and went into a local hotel and noticed they had bed and breakfast available which was on a notice board in the reception room.
Interviewer: Were you dressed in your —
JDH: We were dressed in a huge army greatcoat which the French had given to us. They were French soldier’s greatcoats and they issued us with these as clothing to keep warm because we were up in the mountains. In the hills. And we went out with these on covering our uniform which was underneath. You had to have a uniform because if not we could have been shot as spies and we had to be very very careful to conceal it. And when we arrived in the hotel I said to the lady at the reception, ‘Bonjour madame, deux cafe s’il vous plait.’ ‘Certainement monsieur.’ And that’s how it began. And after that I said, ‘E deux chambre lit?’ ‘Certainement Monsieur.’ And she took me up to the room and was talking, showing us the room and I realised that I couldn’t keep up this pretence of being French in general conversation. So I just said, ‘Madame, [unclear] Francais.’ As though I was American. I said that we were Americans and that we were doing geological studies with the Vichy French and we had been working during the night. That’s why we were in this scruff. She seemed to accept that and after two or three days we managed to get a train which took us across the frontier to a place called Souk Ahras.
Interviewer: Across the frontier into Tunisia?
JDH: Into Algeria.
Interviewer: Into Algeria.
JDH: Algeria. We were then fortunate when we crossed that frontier and everybody got out to have a check of some sort of reason. There was a chap on the platform obviously checking people and we stayed where we were right opposite and two French soldiers opened our carriage door and just said, ‘Permission militaire, Monsieur?’ And I said, ‘Mai oui certainement. Bon permission.’ And off they went. Ted said, ‘Well, what was that all about?’ I said, ‘They seemed to think that we were French on leave.’ And the chap who was doing the checking on the, on the station platform could see this therefore he didn’t trouble us anymore. Now the funny part was well it wasn’t really funny was that when we were recaptured we had to come back and cross this place in reverse and he was there. I just looked at him and I just said, ‘You remember me?’ He thought we were going to drop him you see. And then I did fourteen days cells and three days dungeons.
Interviewer: So they picked you up again and put you back into Le Kef.
JDH: But I escaped again. This time in this place called Laghouat which is in the Sahara desert.
Interviewer: Who did you escape with this time?
JDH: This time we started to dig a tunnel in November 1941 and the tunnel was completed in June ‘42 and it was sixty odd metres in length. A hundred and ninety odd feet. We used two bread knives which started off being about nine inches in length and finished up by being about three. And twenty nine of us got out and twenty nine of us were recaptured. There was nowhere to go. But we’d done it right under their noses and of course their hierarchy, the French Vichy hierarchy took it out on the commandant of the camp and various people they were all dipped in rank and things like that.
Interviewer: What nationality were the guards?
JDH: Mostly Arabic. Mostly Arabic.
Interviewer: Under French.
JDH: Under French. Vichy French. Yes. Mostly Arab.
Interviewer: And their attitude to you? Or you to them as well.
JDH: I suppose we would say then in those days [unclear] comme ci comme ca.
Interviewer: They weren’t over cruel or —
JDH: Not really. No. I mean you had to excise a bit of common sense. I mean they had guns. They were armed and it paid not to be foolish. I mean you know for example we had a ligne [unclear] which was a line running around the periphery of the camp before you come to the barbed wire. You could see it actually and if we were using the, playing with the ball and it bounced underneath there don’t follow it.
Interviewer: No.
JDH: Go up to the line, look up at the guard, ‘Permission?’ And they would say [Depeche trois] You know, ‘Get a move on then,’ and they’d train their gun and you’d go and pick your ball up and acknowledge it.
Interviewer: Yes.
JDH: Acknowledge it because they were doing their duty but had we proceeded they’d have shot us. Oh they would have shot us without any doubt. Yes. And the whole thing was flood lighted you know. They floodlighted it at night. So —
Interviewer: So you got out again and got how far this time?
JDH: Oh, not very far. We were recaptured the next morning because the premier spahi which are the crack horse regiment of that part of the world they just released them into the desert and they just sort of fanned, a sort of fan movement. They just picked us up. We had no alternative. I thought they were going to shoot us because they clicked their rifles back. They were brilliant horsemen. They could ride without hands, you know and hold their rifle. So we put up our hands. I shall never forget that. Just put up our hands and it worked. I’ll say this for them three of them jumped off their horses and threw their guns across to three others and they allowed us to have some water, to drink some water. And then they just got us on the back of that, one each on the back of their horse, beautiful animals.
Interviewer: Were you punished for escaping?
JDH: Oh yeah. Had about sixteen days in the cells. Yeah. Oh, I’ve done more cells than [unclear] and back.
Interviewer: The cells, the cells sounds particularly –
JDH: There were two of us in one cell because there were so many of us they hadn’t enough cells to put us one in a cell so they put two of us in a cell and its just a stone. A sloping stone slab. And they opened the doors in the morning into a sort of courtyard to enable us if required to use their so-called toilet facilities which were pretty awful. But they had, we had the churn. It literally was a milk churn in the centre of this quadrangle which we had to use. We’d just sit on this churn or stand on it and take it in turns to empty it. You know, each one get carrying one hand. So it was a wonderful experience you know. A wonderful experience. And I remember looking at a thermometer we passed one of their bureaus, their offices on route to the place where we took this contents of the churn and this was about 4 o’clock in the afternoon and the temperature was a hundred and four. And that was in early June and it soared into July August. At midday I don’t know what it reached. Probably about forty degrees centigrade, celsius or whatever it is. A hundred and twenty, a hundred and thirty degrees. Unbearable. If we did any washing we had very restricted facilities and I got some soap sent from England and I was very fortunate to get this soap. Carbolic soap. Go out to the wash trough when the water was on. It was only on for a restricted period of time. You put one articulate into the wash tub and then put it one side to do the other one by the time you’d done the second one the first one was bone dry just like a board. Unbelievable.
Interviewer: What affect did this experience have because it was about two years you were a prisoner wasn’t it?
JDH: Two and a quarter.
Interviewer: Yes, that’s —
JDH: About a year and a quarter in the desert and the other year in two other places. At one time we thought we were going to be repatriated, so did the Vichy French in exchange for the German submarine crew and we were sent to a place called [unclear] I write about it in there.
Interviewer: Yes.
JDH: I don’t know whether I do it in that book.
Interviewer: Yes, you did.
JDH: Yes, because I I refer to the brothel. Have you read about that?
Interviewer: Yes.
JDH: And the woman I was with she’d be about forty I suppose and she didn’t speak any English at all. All French. It was rather funny. She came up to the bar actually and was talking to us in French and she suddenly changed the conversation and said, ‘Pour vous monsieur dix franc.’ So Ted said, that’s my colleague, he said, ‘What was that?’ I said, ‘She’s just said to me for me it’ll be ten francs.’ He said, ‘How much for me?’ I said, [unclear] I said, ‘Same for you. Ten francs. I’ll toss you over who goes first.’
Interviewer: And that was while you were waiting when you thought this —
JDH: We thought we were going to be repatriated you see and I was terribly concerned about infection you see. This thing. And we used [unclear] potash which you put into solution and of course its virulent purple [laughs] A bit of a mess. But now, you see these are true things. This is what happened. It’s not biographical it’s autobiographical.
Interviewer: So when the repatriation fell through you then were put back again. Is that right?
JDH: Yeah.
Interviewer: So you were back in again after having your hopes built up. What did all these experiences, how did it you know colour your life afterwards or was it just a character building two and a quarter years or what?
JDH: I think in some respects its almost been helpful if you like because I know I’ve done it. You see I can walk down the road here. There are people who talk to me, they call across to me and I don’t have a clue who they are but because of these books you see I’m well known. And I’m on my own now because my wife died six and a half years ago. I think this is the hard part. Particularly when you’ve been to a do like that and then come back in the evening to a vacuum, to an empty house. No. The part of the war which is the most disturbing to me wasn’t the flying. It wasn’t the operational flying it was the prisoner of war side. But I’ll tell you this. My crew on the Lancaster my flight engineer was nineteen and my bomb aimer who was a huge chap six foot two, towered above me just made, just failed to make the teens and he was just twenty. I mean they were only boys really. I at twenty six, twenty seven then was an old man. And we got coned once in the master searchlight. This is in the Lancaster and the master searchlight is almost ultraviolet and if one of those catches you the other aircraft home in on it and then they push the flak up. You don’t stand a chance. I don’t know of any crew, aircraft that’s been coned in the master searchlight that hasn’t been shot down and I just was waiting for it to happen and what was it going to be like. And the pilot promptly put the aircraft, this is a Lancaster fully bomb loaded, fully loaded with bombs put it into a dive and spiralled. No good at all. I mean you couldn’t evade, couldn’t evade this searchlight and we lost altitude from twenty one thousand to twelve. Nine thousand feet in no time whatsobe and gravity pushed my head on to the table and I couldn’t [pause] I was just waiting for the explosion. But suddenly that light went out. We didn’t evade it. It went out. The gunners were firing away like crazy. Now whether they had succeeded in firing down the beam and putting it out or whether something else I don’t know but that light went out. And this little engineer of nineteen years of age with the pilot they hauled this huge Lancaster from the vertical almost into the horizontal with a full bomb load and it didn’t break its back and we went on to the target. I thought we’d get an immediate DFC but we didn’t. We didn’t get anything.
Interviewer: If I can just mention or just ask you about how you did get out of the prison you were eventually repatriated.
JDH: We were repatriated. The Allies and that’s the Americans and the British and the Canadians, the Allied forces invaded Algeria in November 1942 and the Vichy French surrendered. We wondered what would happen to us. My fear was when we heard that this invasion had taken place my fear was that they might take us away from the prison camp and whip us into Germany before our forces landed but they didn’t. They unlocked the doors and they dismissed any guard who they thought had been difficult and brought in a fresh lot of guards who were courtesy itself and couldn’t do enough for us. It was all hypocrisy, hypocritical and we spent the last four days just using the place for the passing of time until there was transport able to take us up to Algiers and we sailed home.
Interviewer: And you came back in HMS Keren, I think.
JDH: HMS Keren.
Interviewer: Yes.
JDH: It sailed out there with American troops I think it was. And I don’t know what its cargo was but they loaded it up with oranges. The hold was absolutely filled. Of course, you couldn’t get oranges in this country so we took it back loaded with oranges. Yeah.
Interviewer: You didn’t have scurvy when you came back did you? [laughs] So how did you feel when you got back? Did you want to get back into the fight?
JDH: Oh yes. Because the first thing, basically the first thing that we were asked when we got, we landed in, where was it? In Greenock in Scotland and we were taken by train under guard. With guards. No civilian was allowed to come anywhere near that carriage. We were taken by train to London and interviewed by top brass and virtually the first thing they asked us, ‘Do you wish to fly again?’ And having said yes then that’s when I got the opportunity to remuster if I wished and train as a pilot and I said no, I’d like to take up navigation again and do a refresher course. This is what I did. And I could do that more quickly you see. I thought I’d get back on to flying more quickly. And navigation was my metier. I liked navigation.
Interviewer: So it was back to, to an OTU for a little while while you —
JDH: I went to, it wasn’t an OTU to start off with. What would you call it? [pause] A place called Moreton Valence.
Interviewer: An AFU. Number 6 AFU.
JDH: AFU. And from there we went to Wymeswold which was an OTU. Operational Training Unit. And from Wymeswold I went to, wasn’t it Lindholme? Which was a Conversion Unit to four engine. And then to the squadron and did my first operational flight on a 100 Squadron on Lancasters to Brunswick, Braunschweig in the middle of December ’44 and finished the tour at the D-Day landings and saw the flotilla going over. Then we came back and we spoke to the crew, the pilot and myself and we said, ‘How do you feel about carrying on?’ We said, ‘We’re game.’ I said, ‘It seems a shame now doesn’t it?’ I said. ‘We’ve landed on the other side, or they have.’ I said, ‘Carry on. Let’s support them.’ So we went to the squadron commander and he was delighted. We said, ‘On the condition we get our aircraft back.’ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘It’s gone. It’s gone out tonight or its going out tonight.' He said, ‘If it comes back —’ and it did come back, ‘Yes, you can have it and continue.’ I was in the Officer’s Mess on the following morning I think it was and the doc as we called him, the medical officer, Doc Marshall he came up to me. He said, ‘Dougie, what’s this I hear about you chaps volunteering to fly again?’ ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘That’s right, Doc.’ I said, ‘And we’re going to get our aircraft back.’ He just looked at me. He said, ‘Over my dead body.’ Just like that. I can see him saying that. I have used the quashed not squashed. ‘I have quashed it irrevocably.’ He said, ‘You don’t realise how sick you are.’
Interviewer: He could see in you strain and stress that you couldn’t feel or see yourselves.
JDH: I said, ‘Doc,’ I said, ‘They’re cross countrys from now on.’ I said, ‘We’ve landed on the other side. We’ve only got to go ahead and support them as they move along to occupy Germany.’ He said, ‘Cross country runs.’ The squadron at the end of that month lost another six Lancasters. Six. So –
Interviewer: Did you have the same crew in for nearly all your thirty ops?
JDH: No. When we finished operational flying they all went different places and I only met the bomb aimer again. I don’t know what happened to the rest. We’ve tried to contact them in the meantime you know over the period. We’ve tried on the internet website.
Interviewer: But for your thirty ops.
JDH: Thirty ops.
Interviewer: You was –
JDH: Oh, the first lot.
Interviewer: Yes.
JDH: Oh, they’re both dead. John [Riddick], he was the, he was killed in a crash very soon after we got back and my wireless operator Tony Randall there’s a picture in the book he was killed on his first operational flight on Halifaxes. I think he was from Pocklington or somewhere. I’m not sure.
Interviewer: Well, you were on the Nuremberg raid.
JDH: I was on the Nuremberg raid.
Interviewer: But because you’d gone, been one of the first to go you didn’t appreciate the catastrophe to come.
JDH: Well, as far as Nuremberg was concerned I can remember this quite clearly when we got back, back to the squadron at debriefing we were always asked the same sort of questions. ‘Well, how did it go?’ ‘What was it like?’ And I remember using the expression, ‘A piece of cake.’ The following morning [pause] firstly our ex-gunner, he got frostbite and was taken off flying and he was given ground duties and he sort of acted as a nursemaid for us for a little while until he got fit again. And he came into the billet at about mid-day or whatever when it was time for us to get up again and he said, ‘Well, chaps how many do you think you lost last night over Nuremberg?’ ‘Oh,’ I said, ‘Not many.’ I said, which is the entire command, I said, ‘Twenty.’ ‘No.’ He said, ‘Think again.’ I said, ‘More than that?’ He said, ‘Yes, more than that.’ ‘Thirty?’ ‘No.’ Then he finally said, ‘Ninety seven.’ I said, ‘Don’t talk rubbish.’ He said, ‘That’s what they say.’ And we did lose ninety seven and another thirteen failed to make their own bases and they crash landed in the UK and never got back to their base. So effectively we lost a hundred and ten aircraft that night. Ninety seven. Thirteen, a hundred and ten give or take, seven or eight hundred aircrew. And I say this, I’ll repeat it we lost more aircrew in that one night over Nuremberg than Fighter Command lost throughout the Battle of Britain. You see I know all this and therefore, oh I beg your pardon I don’t have to be prompted or asked or told. I know it. It just happened and I shan’t forget it. I never will forget it. And at ninety four, five what do I do? Do I go on? My publisher says, ‘Yes, you go on because you have a mission to fulfil.’ I said, ‘What is it?’ He said, ‘You’ll find out as you go along.’ And I think this is part of the mission. We thought we’d got five hundred pounds for that raffle.
Interviewer: This was –
JDH: Barton on Humber last Sunday.
Interviewer: This was a signing of your autobiography and –
JDH: Yes.
Interviewer: Later published.
JDH: I sold thirty five books.
Interviewer: Yes. So they see your mission is to continue spreading the word really and –
JDH: Spreading the word. Oh, I know where the book is [pause] This is my eighth book.
Interviewer: Yes. Just now, “Just Douglas: A Navigator’s Story.”
JDH: Yes. I’ve got the covers for another one called, “The Best of Douglas.” But I don’t know what to do about it. But I’m writing another one now and it’s called, “St Bernard and Puppies.” It’s a make-believe story for children of all ages. I hope to get it to East Kirkby in Easter.
Interviewer: Oh excellent.
JDH: We’ll see.
Interviewer: So you did your thirty ops of which Nuremberg was one of them and you came to the end and wanted to remuster and they wouldn’t let you. So you went to Sandtoft to do some instructing which –
JDH: Instruction work. I hated it. Absolutely hated it. It’s not so much the instruction work but I just hated Sandoft. I don’t know. It was just something about the place I didn’t come to terms with at all. And I did as much flying as I could. They’re, all the instructional flights are logged in the book. Well, I don’t think in that book but certainly in this book. So, you know what I talked to you about happened and I have the written proof of it here and I have the aircraft letters and numbers which is, is a good fortune. My wife’s family are in here too. He was a big man in the St John Ambulance. That’s my wife’s father. Her family were co-founders of Blackburn Rovers Football Club.
Interviewer: Goodness.
JDH: You know who that is don’t you?
Interviewer: Yes, I do. Just Jane at East Kirkby.
JDH: Yes. Those are the Pantons.
Interviewer: So you, you have your books to sell and you go to the various commemorations.
JDH: Yeah.
Interviewer: And that is obviously a very important part of your life now.
JDH: Very important. Here’s a great guy. Air Chief Marshall Sir Clive Loader. He did the preface for my, for that book. I’ll show you.
[pause]
JDH: Was it this one?
Interviewer: Yes, it was.
JDH: Yes.
Interviewer: There it is. It’s just by your finger.
JDH: “On Sunday the 27th of August my wife Alison and I had the great honour of representing todays Royal Air Force. I was deeply touched – ” This is Douglas Hudson, “I was deeply touched when he asked whether I would be prepared to write a forward to this, the sixth edition of, “There and Back Again: A Navigator’s Story.” I’m truly delighted to do so. Sir Clive Loader,” etcetera etcetera. He’s retired now and I don’t know whether I ought to try to contact him or not. I perhaps feel that it would be an intrusion into his retirement. I don’t know. It’s very difficult to say.
Interviewer: Can you see yourself having a different life?
JDH: Could I see myself –
Interviewer: Yes, you know it’s –
JDH: I don’t know. You see, look. It’s the life of now with so much in it which I can think about. Somebody said I’m a ladies man. So be it. That’s Sandra Morton. That’s the lady across the road who introduced you. That is Marguerita [Allen] She used to phone me from California quite regularly. She now is living in Preston. And that is Lola Lamour. In other words, Joanne Massey. Now, she and I will be re-enacting together at East Kirkby in May.
Interviewer: Well, that’s wonderful. Thank you very much Douglas. It’s, it’s been a treat to listen to you. Thank you.
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Interview with James Douglas Hudson
1024-Hudson, James Douglas
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SHarriganD[Ser#-DoB]v27
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Claire Bennet
This Interview was recorded by Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire.
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2011-02-04
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Royal Air Force
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eng
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Sound
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00:40:51 audio recording
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Pending revision of OH transcription
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IBCC Digital Archive
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James Douglas Hudson followed a friend to join the RAF. He trained as a navigator and was posted to 101 Squadron at RAF West Raynham. On his final operational flight with the squadron he ran out of fuel and crashed. He was taken prisoner by the Vichy French in North Africa and spent time in a prisoner of war camp in Laghouet and Le Kef. He attempted escape twice but was recaptured. Douglas was repatriated to the UK in November 1942. He volunteered to return to operational flying duties and was posted to 101 Squadron based at RAF Waltham. One of his operations was to Nuremberg and he was shocked to hear about the losses of that raid. He and his crew volunteered for a further tour but the Medical Officer intervened and declared he was medically unfit to fly. After the war Douglas wrote books about his experiences in Bomber Command.
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1941-11
1942-06
1942-11
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Algeria
Germany
Great Britain
Tunisia
Algeria--Laghouat (Province)
England--Lincolnshire
Germany--Nuremberg
Tunisia--El Kef
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Julie Williams
100 Squadron
101 Squadron
aircrew
Blenheim
bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944)
crash
escaping
Lancaster
navigator
prisoner of war
RAF Grimsby
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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Popular misconceptions prisoners of war Le Kef
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Pencil sketch of four men playing cards round a table and explanatory note explaining 'sketch by Blenheim wireless operator Sgt E (Ted) Hart (who escaped from Le Kef with Douglas'.
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E Hart
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One hand-drawn sketch and one handwritten note
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eng
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Artwork
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MHartE[Ser#-DoB]-151029-010003, MHartE[Ser#-DoB]-151029-010001
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Royal Air Force
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
North Africa
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IBCC Digital Archive
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aircrew
arts and crafts
Blenheim
escaping
prisoner of war
wireless operator
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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] International Red Cross Heading] [/underlined]
SB
Sgt. Chef. J. D. Hudson
Camp de Sejour Surveille,
LE KEF,
Tunisie,
[underlined] Afrique du Nord. [/underlined]
[page break]
RBO 10026 Geneva 26.9.40
cjg
Dear Sir:
In reply to your letter of September 1, we desire to inform you that your name has been communicated to the Prisoners of War Information Bureau in London, who will inform your family of your present address.
We also forwarded your letter to your parents as you requested.
Faithfully yours,
[Red Cross rubber stamp]
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Postcard to Douglas Hudson from the Red Cross
Description
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Informs him his name has been communicated to Prisoner of War Bureau in London who will inform family of current address. Forwarded his letter.
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1940-09-26
Spatial Coverage
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Switzerland
Switzerland--Geneva
Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
North Africa
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1940-09-26
Format
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Two sided typewritten postcard
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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ERedCrossHudsonJD400926
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Jan Waller
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Great Britain. British Red Cross Society
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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[Red Cross Logo]
COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX-ROUGE
AGENCE CENTRALE DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE
GENÈVE
[post mark]
SB
SGT. HUDSON
CAMP DE SEJOUR SURVEILLE
[underlined] LE KEF [/underlined]
Tunisie.
[page break]
Ref. No RBIOC 27.
Geneva, november [sic] 22nd.
[post mark]
Dear Sir,
We have received your letter dated 18.10 40. and we beg to inform you that we immediately forwarded your letter to your parents and also sent the British Red Cross a message enquiring about your parent's health.As [sic] soon as we receive any information we shall forward it to you at once.
Yours faithfully.
[stamp]
Comité International de la Croix Rouge
Agence centrale des prisonniers de guerre
GENÈVE
[/stamp]
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Postcard to Douglas Hudson from the Red Cross
Description
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Received his letter and forwarded to his parents along with message to British Red Cross enquiring about health of parents.
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1940-11-22
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Two sided typewritten postcard
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eng
Type
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Text
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ERedCrossHudsonJD401122
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Switzerland
Switzerland--Geneva
Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-22
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Joy Reynard
Creator
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Great Britain. British Red Cross Society
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
Transcribed document
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Transcription
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[Red Cross Logo]
COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX-ROUGE
AGENCE CENTRALE DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE
GENÈVE
[post mark]
SB
Sgt.Chef J.D. HUDSON
"Camp de séjour surveillé"
[underlined] LE KEF [/underlined]
Tunisie.
[page break]
RBIO 27/JC
Geneva, december [sic] 18th
[postmark]
Dear Sir,
We beg to inform you that we received your letter dated 29.11.40. We immediately forwarded your letter to your parents and also sent them a message by "Air Mail" asking them to send you a cable c/o the American Consul Tunis.
Yours faithfully.
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Postcard to Douglas Hudson from the Red Cross
Description
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Received his letter and forwarded it to his parents with airmail message to send him a cable care of American Consul Tunis.
Date
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1940-12-18
Format
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Two sided typewritten postcard
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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ERedCrossHudsonJD401218
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Switzerland
Switzerland--Geneva
Tunisia--Tunis
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-12-18
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Contributor
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Joy Reynard
Creator
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Great Britain. British Red Cross Society
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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[Red Cross Logo]
COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX-ROUGE
AGENCE CENTRALE DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE
GENÈVE
[post mark]
SB
Sgt. Chef J.D, [sic] Hudson
Camp de Séjour Surveillé
Le KEF
[underlined] TUNISIE [/underlined]
[page break]
RBIO 27/ L.M.
Geneva, 13.1. 41.
Dear Mr. Hudson,
We have the honour to inform you that we have just received your letter dated from 28.12.40 and that we have sent forward the enclosed letter to your parents.
Yours faithfully,
[stamp]
Comité International de la Croix Rouge
Agence centrale des prisonniers de guerre
GENÈVE
[/stamp]
Dublin Core
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Postcard to Douglas Hudson from the Red Cross
Description
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Received letter and forwarded to parents.
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1941-01-13
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Two sided typewritten postcard
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eng
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Text
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ERedCrossHudsonJD410113
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Switzerland
Switzerland--Geneva
Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
North Africa
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1941-01-13
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Joy Reynard
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Great Britain. British Red Cross Society
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
Date
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2015-06-16
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Hudson, JD
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[Envelope]
[underlined] PRISONERS OF WAR POST [/underlined] [postmark]
No. 755052 HUDSON: J.D. (SGT. CHEF),
[censor stamp] CAMP DE SEJOUR SUIRVEILLE,
S/COURENT COMMANDANT D’ARMES,
LE KEF
TUNISIE
[underlined] NORD AFRIQUE. [/underlined]
[page break]
3-1-41 Miss J. B. Morton
Beamar
Montgomerie Road
Prestwick
[postmark] [underlined] Ayrshire [/underlined]
Scotland
[circled] VA27 [/circled] [censor stamp]
[page break]
[decorative Christmas card] bells, flowers best wishes
[Page break]
[drawing] May your Christmas be happy and the New Year full of joy.
Though often changes may befall, Our thoughts once more old times recall And bring to mind fond memories sweet, This happy Christmas Morn to greet.
Love from J. B Morton [underlined] Beamern [/underlined]
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Title
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Douglas Hudson Christmas card
Description
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Sent by J B Morton. Flowers and bells on the front with green ribbon. Woman at post-box inside front. Christmas greetings inside right.
Creator
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J B Morton
Date
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1940-11-27
Format
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Card and envelope
Language
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eng
Type
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Artwork
Text
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Identifier
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EMortonJBHudsonJD401127
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
Scotland--Ayrshire
Scotland--Prestwick
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-27
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Robin Christian
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
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Hudson, JD
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[post mark]
Prisoner of War Post
[two indecipherable words] Post
755052 J.D. Hudson (Sgt Chef)
Camp De Sejour Suirveille
S Couvert Commandent D’armes
LE KEF
Tunisie
Nord Afrique
[page break]
[post mark]
From:
JB Morton
Prestwick
5-3-41
[page break]
Beamar
15 Montgomerie Rd
Prestwick Ayrshire.
29-12-40
Dear Douglas,
Here I am at last hope you got Xmas card alright. Well my Dear I was awfully pleased to get your mothers letter after having the one that you were missing. In fact I had written you and my letter was returned saying you were missing so I just wrote at once to your mother asking about you it was then we were all so anxious about you. I am very delighted to know you are alive and safe meantime. From your mother’s letter you seem to be very
[page break]
Well in health and otherwise I was very sorry for your mother and father but they are both in better spirits now. I hope you will excuse me being so long in writing to you. I thought maybe I would get a letter from you first. Beamar is just the same billets for the R.A.F. boys there is a course finished just now they left here Saturday for some where. So I have no one meantime. Mr Danks left 10 months ago I miss him very much but he had to go his business had a call on him. So I have no one in his place. The Greens are still here they have a little baby Girl now. I suppose you will never have had any word of Robert at all. I had one of the lads visiting me one who was before you he is well in the midst of things he was on 7 days leave.
You will be missing all the cold weather snow and ice and frost and rain. It will be quite summer where you are. I suppose it will be Christmas and New Year with you all the same. I would have sent you some little thing but wont know what to send or do but when you write you might please let me know if I can send you anything I will be only too pleased to do it.
[page break]
You remember Janie. She was awfully sorry to know you were reported missing, but quite pleased now to know your safe. Well Douglas I dont think I can say much more I know you wont have much time for writing but whenever you can I will be so pleased to have a note from you. Trusting you are in good health and spirits wishing you all the best of the season. Love and all good wishes from [underlined] J.B. Morton [/underlined]
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from J B Morton
Description
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Mentions letter from Douglas's mother informing writer that Douglas was missing and now delighted to know he was alive and safe. Catches up with news of acquanitances. Hopes he got Christms card. Asks Douglas to let them know if there is anything they can send.
Creator
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J B Morton
Date
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1940-12-29
Format
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Three page handwritten letter and envelope
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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EMortonJBHudsonJD401229
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Scotland--Ayrshire
Scotland--Prestwick
North Africa
Scotland
Great Britain
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1940-12-29
1941-03-05
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Jan Waller
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
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Hudson, JD
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[handwritten letter]
(Royal Air Force)
755052
Sgt. Chef T. D. Hudson
Camp de Sejour Surveille
LE KEF
TUNISIE
AFRIQUE DU NORD.
18-10-40.
My Dear Mother & Dad,
This is another letter to let you know that I am still keeping fit & well, and I do hope you are also, and that you are still safe and in good spirits.
I do assure you that I am O.K. and that you have no need to worry, my greatest concern is that you are both well.
It has not been as warm here of late. The autumn is here and I expect that during autumn & winter the weather will be pleasant, but nonetheless I should dearly love a Manchester fog.
I am becoming quite an epicure & I am looking forward to experimenting when I get home. We do a lot [inserted] of cooking [/inserted] for ourselves here & the results turn out very satisfactory. I expect to write again in a fortnight. I am allowed 2 letters & 1 p.c. a month. I have written about 5 so far, I do hope they get through. I shall wish you a Happy Christmas now because this letter may arrive about then. Don’t send me anything. I receive useful items from sympathisers here & altogether we do very well. Occasionally we get the English programmes on the wireless & still read the French Paper. Our football is getting a bit soft. So for the present cheerio. I am always thinking about you. All my love, Douglas.
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Title
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
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States he is fit and well and his greatest concern is their health. Mentions the weather. Says he is becoming an epicure and looks forward to experimenting. Says he has written 5 letters and hopes they got through. Wishes them a happy Christmas. Writes not to send him anything as they get useful items from sympathisers. Mentions getting occasional English programme on wireless.
Creator
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J D Hudson
Date
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1940-10-18
Format
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One page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401018
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-10-18
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Sue Smith
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
Transcribed document
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755052 Sgt. Chef J.D. Hudson.
Camp de Sejour Surveille,
Le Kef. Tunisie. Afrique du Nord.
7-2-41
My Dear Mother & Dad,
Since I wrote to you last, i.e. a fortnight ago, I have received three letters from you dated 12th, 16th and 25th December and the day before yesterday i.e. 5th Feb. I received your cable of the 3rd reading “Mother Dad Both well. Send their love” I am very pleased indeed to receive this news, especially the cable which is so up to date, and has done remarkably well to get through in two days. I have also received a letter each since I last wrote to you from Miss Law, Hildred, Dorothy Pell, E.W.T. and John.
I cannot write to any of them because I am only permitted to write two letters per month and four p.cs. Nowadays I cannot obtain plain p.cs. so am temporarily reduced to two letters per month only. I shall do my utmost to get the p.cs. again and I know that you will understand.
There is no need for me to say how glad I am to know that you are both keeping well. I hope Dad is O.K. and I expect he is when you are able to house a guest, which I think is very kind and considerate of you. Give her my love if she is still with you when this letter arrives.
Yes I was thinking about you all Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day and Mothers Birthday, but of course I am always doing that. It was very kind of Jaffes to send £2. I very much appreciate it.
Since the mail began I have received 28 letters from England and your cable. Sixteen letters have been from you, so that is not too bad. I wish I could write to you more often, but as I am in safety you need not worry.
[page break]
You realise only too well I cannot say a great deal in my letters but one of these days I shall have plenty to tell you both when I am back in England. I am not stagnant yet even if my wings are temporarily clipped and am still proud to say I come from England.
Politics in letters are taboo, I expect, so I will Tell you a bit about the weather here instead. A few days have been warm enough for sun-bathing, but this morning we had snow again and the weather is Aprilish in England. It varies terrifically. The sun is hot but we still get the cold west winds and at night it is quite cold. For an English [deleted] [indecipherable word] [/deleted] person under normal conditions the weather would be ideal and I am very weather beaten and look well and as I told you before weigh 10 stones 6 lbs. Our food is better and I think we have contacted Air Ministry now and in consequence get a rather better money allowance, which of course does not represent anything approaching our normal pay. We spend everything on food, wood and cigarettes. Drink practically nothing else but black coffee, and red wine at about 3 1/2d a litre = nearly 1 1/2 pints. The beer (bottled only) is poison and we [inserted] would [/inserted] not touch it with a barge pole.
From the letters I have received it appears that several people think we have the freedom of the country. Perhaps you could explain that we are confined to the camp and only allowed a walk a day with as I told you before a “chaperon”. We can knock holes in a football in the camp yard, but that is not exactly come and go as you please.
During my stay here I am trying to get as strong as I can. Physically I feel better than when I left England. I get the French newspaper every day and believe what I want to believe in it. I have quite a good idea of what is going on however and my congratulations go out to all those who I know deserve them. Just to think what I have missed. I eat a lot of oranges here. It is the season now and I get about four a day for the equivalent of 2d Living here is cheap but of course so much is rationed. I am sending this letter by Air Mail and do hope it gets through all right. Did I tell you that we have a fairly decent selection of English books and plenty of clothing. Will say good-bye now until next latter [sic] day unless I can get a p.c. before. All my love and best wishes and what a celebration when we all meet again. Please give my love and regards to E.W.T. and keep your spirits going. DOUGLAS.
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Title
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Letter from Douglas Hudson in internee camp in Le Kef, Tunisia, to his parents
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An account of the resource
Writes that he has received correspondence from home and from pen friends. States he cannot write to the latter as he is only allowed two letters a month. Explains that he cannot say a great deal in letters and that politics are taboo. Explains about life in camp and that the internees do not have freedom of the country but are confined a single walk a day with chaperone. Writes about his health and food available.
Date
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1941-02-07
Format
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Two page typewritten letter
Language
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eng
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Technical aid
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Text
Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudson(Fam)410207-01
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1941-02-07
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Tricia Marshall
David Bloomfield
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IBCC Digital Archive
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James Douglas Hudson
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
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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
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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
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eng
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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
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1940-08-01
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
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IBCC Digital Archive
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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
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Hudson, JD
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SGT. CHEF J. D. HUDSON
CAMP DE SEJOUR SURVEILLE
S/COUVERT COMMANDANT D’ARME
LE KEF
TUNISIE
NORD AFRIQUE
FRIDAY SEPT. 6TH 1940
My dear Mother & Dad,
I do hope you will have received the first letter I wrote to you from this place about five days ago, telling you that I was quite well, absolutely unarmed, and interred at this place.
There’s nothing else to add really, except to tell you again that I am still keeping well, eating plenty & sleeping plenty, there being little else to do. there are plenty of magazines & books in English, & we can play darts, draughts or cards. We also have a gramophone & a few records.
Yesterday I remembered it was Dad’s birthday & I thought about it quite a lot. I was only sorry I could not be at home to celebrate, but in any case, I wished him a
[page break]
very happy birthday, & sincerely hope that next year will be different & I shall be home again.
I do ask you not to worry. I am perfectly all right, and of course very safe here. The last few days have been hotter, quite equal to our hottest summer days, possibly even hotter, with very marvellous nights.
We go for lengthy early morning walks, the country is quite mountainous, but after that I more or less fight shy of the sun, especially after midday.
I am cultivating a beard, it’s quite fun in a way. I manage to keep clean & hot showers are now part of the menu three times a week if necessary.
The others here are decent blokes in the same boat & we get along well & are treated kindly. This is all quite true & there is absolutely pressure exerted.
I wont write too much because it makes a lot for the sensor to read. Please remember me to every one. I do hope that you are keeping well, safe and cheery. I am always thinking about you.
All my love Douglas
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
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Hopes that they had received his first letter telling them he was well and interned at Le Kef. Writes of his daily activities and that there is plenty of English reading material available. Recalls his fathers recent birthday and send greetings. Reassures parents that he is OK and mentions hot weather. Describes walks in the local area and mentions he is growing a beard. Writes of compatriots but not much due to censor.
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1940-09-06
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
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eng
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE400906
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-09-06
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
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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755052
Sgt. Chef. T.[?] D. Hudson
Camp de Sejour Surveille
LE KEF.
TUNISIE
AFRIQUE DU NORD.
3rd October 1940.
My Dear Mother & Dad,
I was very pleased indeed to receive a letter today from the Red Cross at Geneoa[sic] informing me that my name had been forwarded to the Prisoners of War Information Bureau in London, & that they would inform you of my address; also that a letter I wrote on September 1st. to you via the Swiss Red Cross had been sent on to you. I have written two subsequent letters to you and I do hope they will have, or will reach you.
I do hope that you are both keeping well and safe. I am quite O.K. I assure you most definitely. I have a temporary sore foot, the result of our enthusiasm at football on Monday, but it is fast improving.
In spite of the warm weather I have a very good apetite,[sic] and I am convinced I shall not refuse anything when I get home. I smoke
[page break]
cigarettes which in England I could never have managed. They are terrifically strong & remarkably cheap ie. About 1½d for 20 in English money. Everything here is worked in Francs.
The weather recently has been hot & cloudless, hotter than our hottest summer days, but yesterday what a thunderstorm we had & what torrential rain. To-day has been considerably cooler.
The length of daylight does not vary much. It is light from about 5.30 am until 7 p.m, I believe all the year round.
Patience is the only thing now. We get the news from the local French paper, so have some idea how you are going on. It is annoying[?] how domesticated we are becoming. I never dreamed I should discuss the possibilities of an egg and flour in baking. I can do amazing things on our improvised spirit stoves & have developed quite a liking for spaghetti & macaroni. In short I am really thriving on my new menu. Tomatoes are plentiful (about 1d a lb).
I must say good-bye now. I send all my love and do hope you will keep well & safe. I am splendid so don’t worry about me. I am always thinking about you.
Love Douglas
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
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Writes that he was pleased to get a letter from Red Cross at Geneva informing him that his name had been forwarded to the prisoner of war information bureau in London and that they would inform his parents of his address. Mentions he has written three letters to them sand hopes they will reach them. He says he is well but has sore foot from football. Has a good appetite and is smoking very strong cigarettes. Mentions weather and that the will have to be patient. Writes that they get news from local French papers and of how domesticated he has become.
Date
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1940-10-03
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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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401003-01
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-10-03
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Sue Smith
prisoner of war
Red Cross
sport
-
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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
Rights
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Hudson, JD
Transcribed document
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Royal Air Force
755052. Sgt. Chef. T.[?] D Hudson
Camp de Sejour Surveille.
LE KEF
TUNISIE
AFRIQUE DU NORD.
1st November 1940
My Dear Mother & Dad,
It is two weeks since I wrote to you last & it is now time to write my next letter, as I am allowed two per month. I do hope my previous letters have arrived (I have written about five) and I do hope that you are both safe & keeping well. I always say this when I write to you, because it is my chief concern, & I think about you at all times day & night, hoping that everything is O.K. I am keeping very well & I am in no way any worse for wear, neither have I lost any weight, or anything like that.
I expect that now you will be having almost winter weather. I remember the warm day two years ago when we went into[?] Wales on Nov. 6th & how I am looking forward to the times when those things will be possible again. It has
[page break]
been rather cold during the last fortnight but to-day has been very warm (like our hot summer) with not a cloud in the sky. The winter season is approaching & I think should be pleasant. We are very high up here, probably about 3000’ feet, in fact this part is quite mountainous.
I have received various [deleted] different [/deleted] types of clothing from different sources & am the possessor of a leather jacket which would be admirable for motor cycling. I still retain my uniform & have with me my possessions such as petrol lighter, cigarette holder & Mother’s pullover, also a few of my photos, one of us three taken in the Trough of Bowland in the days of the Riley. All these things remind me of England. My watch is still O.K. and has now got a new strap. I have shaved my beard & am persevering with a ‘tache.
To-day the Arab feast of Ramadan has finished & we, in common with the Arabs, have been issued with small boxes of Turkish Delight. In order not to over burden the censor I will say cherio[sic] now. Sending you all my love & every best wish for Christmas & New Year (I shall be with you then in spirit if not in person.
Douglas
P.T.O.
[page break]
P.S. It should be possible for you to send me a cablegram. Would you make enquiries & see if you could send me one to say you are safe & well?
I have tried to increase my allotment so if the negotiations go through don’t be surprised if you receive more money from the R.A.F.
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
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Mentions he is allowed two letters a month and hopes his previous ones have arrived. Hopes they are keeping well. Reports he is well and has not lost any weight. Mentions current weather and that they are quite high up. Writes of various clothes he has received and that he has retained his uniform and most of his possessions, Mentions that it was Ramadan. and that they had been issued boxes of Turkish delight. Postscript mentions it should be possible for them to send him cablegram and that he has increased his pay allotment to them.
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1940-11-01
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Three page handwritten letter
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eng
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401101
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-01
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James Douglas Hudson
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Sue Smith
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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755052 Sgt. Chef. J.[?] D. Hudson
Camp de Sejour Surveille,
LE KEF.
TUNISIE
AFRIQUE DU NORD
15-11-40
Mr Dear Mother & Dad,
Once again the time has arrived to write to you, and it is perhaps amazing how quickly the time doe actually pass.
There is not a great deal I can say, but I do hope that you are keeping safe & well & that business is still all right. I am doing well & have just completed a spot of sunbathing. During the last fortnight the weather has been quite good, although it gets rather chilly at night time. To-day would be ideal holiday weather in England.
I don’t know whether you have received any of my letters yet. I have written quite a number via the Red Cross & have had one acknowledgement from them saying an earlier letter was forwarded to you. I suggest that upon receipt of the letter that you send me a cable telling me how you are. Send it to me care of the American Consul – Tunis – North Africa. Maybe send it via the Red Cross, but perhaps you could enquire the best way in Manchester.
I am wondering if you still have my motor bike. Perhaps it will be advisable to keep it because I expect that one day the war will be
[page break]
over, and it will be useful again.
As it will take such a long time for the letter to arrive, I wish Mother a very happy birthday & many happy returns of the day. I shall be thinking about her even if I am still so far away from home.
I had a little bridge practice the other day but I am not particularly keen on the game. I much prefer Solo Whist which we play quite a lot here.
I had a pair of shoes mended in style of the Arab soldiers. They are pretty hefty & should prove durable if the soles don’t part company with the uppers.
I am wondering if I have appeared on the Missing List in the papers yet, & if so under what category.
I won’t write any more now. I think the less work I give the Censor the better. I will away & practice a little more cooking now (useful for when I return home)
Once again hoping that you are both well & safe & in good spirits. Don’t worry about me because I assure you I am quite all right, even though I should be away from home, & what wouldn’t I give to be back now.
I am always thinking about you both.
All my love Douglas.
P.T.O.
[page break]
P.S. Write to me by Air Mail, addressed c/o. The American Consul, Tunis, North Africa. One of our chaps has just received a letter from home this way.
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
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Writes he is doing well and has been sunbathing and comments on the weather. Mentions he has sent a number of letters via the Red Cross but has had no acknowledgement that they had been forwarded to them. Asks that they cable him via the American Consul when they have received one. Continues with chatter and wishes mother happy birthday. Mentions playing bridge, solo whist and getting shoes mended. Wonders if he has appeared on missing list yet. Postscript that they should write by email to American Consul, Tunis
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1940-11-15
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Three page handwritten letter
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eng
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401115
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-15
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Sue Smith
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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Title
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Postcard from Douglas Hudson to his parents
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Short note to let them know he is well and hopes they have received his letters.
Date
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1940-11-23
Format
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Handwritten postcard
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eng
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Text
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401123
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Nelson
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-23
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
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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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[postcard]
VIA. BRITISH CONSULATE
TANGIERS
[stamped] PASSED P.W.19 [/stamped]
MR. & MRS HUDSON
[deleted] 10 MOORSIDE ROAD.
KERSAL.
SALFORD. 7 [/deleted]
LANCASHIRE
ANGLETERRE.
[inserted] “Cranford”[?] Scotland Rd, Nelson [/inserted]
[/postcard]
[page break]
ROYAL AIR FORCE. 755052. SGT. CHEF J. D. HUDSON.
CAMP DE SEJOUR SURVEILLE
LE KEF
TUNISIE
AFRIQUE DU NORD.
29-11-40
My Dear Mother & Dad,
I have written a letter to you today – via the Swiss Red Cross Geneva, & I am trying a p.c. now via TANGIERS. I suggest you send letters to me by different ways. Some via TANGIERS, some via the Swiss Red Cross & some addressed to me c/o American Consul, Tunis. Make enquiries about Air Mail letters & cables.
I have nothing special to say except that I am keeping well & I sincerely hope you are, & that everything is all right at home. My thoughts are with you always. All my love, Douglas.
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Postcard from Douglas Hudson to his parents
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Writes that he is trying to send mail via the Red Cross in Geneva and via Tangiers and suggests they reply through the American consul in Tunis. Suggest they enquire about air mail and cables. Reports he is keeping well.
Date
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1940-11-29
Format
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Handwritten postcard
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401129-01
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-29
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Nelson
Morocco
Morocco--Tangier
Switzerland
Switzerland--Geneva
North Africa
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Sue Smith
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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Royal Air Force. 755052. Sgt. Chef.. J.D.Hudson.
Camp de Séjour Surveillé.
LE. KEF.
TUNISIE.
AFRIQUE DU NORD.
29-11-40
My Dear Mother & Dad,
I am still without any news from you & I am wondering if you are both well, & if everything is going on all right at home. I have written quite a number of letters since I have been here and I do hope that by now some of them will have reached you.
If I were you I should try sending letters to me c/o the American Consul – Tunis, & address some envelopes via [inserted] BRITISH CONSUL [/inserted] TANGIERS, & others via the Swiss Red Cross, Geneva. Some of the chaps have received a few letters from home already & it seems a little strange to me that I am still without news. Also if you have not already done so try and send me a cable c/o the American Consul – Tunis, also make enquiries about the possibility of sending letters by Air Mail. There will be no harm done in trying these various channels. Some of our chaps have also had wireless programmes broadcast
[page break]
on the Forces Empire Programme, with the usual favourite tune. Although we do not hear these programmes we are advised by the authorities who have heard them.
There is little I can tell you, except assure you that I am perfectly well & persevering with my Bridge Playing, & speaking a horrible French which definitely serves it’s purpose however, and gets me along. I hesitate to attempt Arabic, and am given to understand it would take years anyway.
I don’t suppose this letter will arrive before Christmas so I hope you will have as good a time as possible under the circumstances. I shall think about you, & also at New Year. I also wish Mother a very happy birthday & am only too sorry I cannot send a present along. However, one of these days there will be rejoicings & reunions which will be appreciated all the more by absence now.
And so until next Friday when I shall send a post-card – cheerio. I shall write another letter in two weeks time.
My thoughs are always with you and I send you all my love,
[underlined] Douglas [/underlined]
P.T.O
[page break]
PS How strange, I have just this moment received the following p.c. from the Swiss Red Cross at Geneva:-
“We have received your letter dated 18-10-40, & beg to inform you that we immediately forwarded your letter to your parents, & also sent the British Red Cross a message enquiring about your parent’s health. As soon as we receive any information we shall forward it to you at once.”
A bit more encouragement!
[underlined] Douglas. [/underlined]
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
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Writes that he still has not heard from them and wonders if everything is alright with them. He suggest various ways they might get in touch: through the American consul Tunis, British consul Tangiers and Red Cross Geneva. Some compatriots have received letters or heard wireless broadcasts on forces empire programmes but not him. Reports that he is well and playing bridge speaking French. Wishes mother happy birthday. Reports receiving a post card from Red Cross stating they had forwarded a letter from him to his parents and sent an enquiry about his parents health to the British Red Cross.
Date
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1940-11-29
Format
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Three page handwritten letter
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eng
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Text
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401129-02
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force. Transport Command
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Tunisia--Tunis
Morocco
Morocco--Tangier
Switzerland
Switzerland--Geneva
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1940-11-29
1940-10-18
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
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IBCC Digital Archive
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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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PAR.
COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DE LA
CROIX ROUGE
[postmark]
AGENCE CENTRALE DES PROSONERS
DE GURRE
GENÉVE.
SUISSE.
[inserted] 106 Thornhill St
Calverley
[underlined] LEEDS [/underlined]
[international red cross postmark]
MR. & MRS. HUDSON.
[deleted] 10. MOORSIDE ROAD. [/deleted]
[deleted] KERSAL. [/deleted]
(SALFORD) [deleted] SALFORD. 7. [/deleted]
LANCASHIRE.
ANGLETERRE.
[page break]
ROYAL AIR FORCE. 755052 SGT. CHEF.
J. D. HUDSON.
CAMP DE SÉJOUR SURVEILLÉ
LE KEF
TUNISIE
AFRIQUE DU NORD
6-12-40
MY DEAR MOTHER & DAD,
Once again a short p.c. to let you know I am still well, & I do hope you are also. I am still without any news from you & I again suggest that if you have not already done so to try & send me a cable c/o The American Consul, Tunis. Try sending letters via the Swiss Red Cross, also by Air Mail, & also others via Tangiers. Hope you will have a happy Christmas & every good wish for the New Year & for Mother’s birthday. My thoughts are always with you. All my love
[
underlined] Douglas [/underlined]
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Title
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Postcard from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
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Reports he is still well but has still not received any news from them. Recommends methods that they might try to reach him through various organisations. Wishes them happy Christmas.
Date
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1940-12-06
Format
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Handwritten postcard
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401206
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Switzerland--Geneva
Great Britain
England--Yorkshire
England--Leeds
North Africa
Switzerland
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1940-12-06
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Steve Christian
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
Date
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2015-06-16
Rights
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Hudson, JD
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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
An account of the resource
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
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Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401220
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)
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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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
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Hudson, JD
Transcribed document
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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
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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
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Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401228-01
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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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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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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Hudson, JD
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Sgt. Chef. J. D. Hudson
Camp de Sejour Surveillé.
LE KEF.
Tunisie.
Afrique du Nord
28-12-40.
My Dear Mother & Dad,
I was very pleased indeed to receive your letter dated Nov. 6th & to learn that everything is well at home. I am only allowed to write two letters a month & post-cards, so will you thank everybody who has enquired about me & written to me. I also received a letter from Auntie Gladys on Christmas Eve dated Nov. 17th. Both letters were very splendid Christmas presents & it was a great relief to have news from you. I am eagerly looking forward to a regulor [sic] mail now. Will you send Kenneth my congratulations on his School Certificate success?
I received a p.c. from the Swiss Red Cross yesterday, saying they were forwarding my letter written on Nov. 29th. & were writing to you asking you to cable me c/o the American Consul in Tunis, so I am now looking forward to a cable from you. Several
[page break]
cables have already been received by some of the chaps here.
We have had quite a good Christmas here under the circumstances, with plenty to eat & drink, (presents from sympathisers in Tunisia), but I should have given a lot to be at home. I hope you had a good time, I thought about you a lot, & I send my best wishes to you & every body [sic] for the New Year, & also for Mother’s birthday.
We have had plenty of snow here, something I did not anticipate in Africa, but it does not last very long, & there is none at all in the plains
I shall be glad to receive letters from as many people as possible & if it is not expensive sending cables, I should appreciate one regularly say every 3 or 4 weeks. They bring up to date news.
I got a pipe for Christmas but the tobacco is poor. Cigarettes here are cheap & very strong but are very good now that we are used to them. They cost about 3d for 20.
Good bye for now, hoping you are well, & again thank you for your letter which was a great blessing. I am still fit & well & looking forward to our reunion. All my love Douglas.
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Title
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
An account of the resource
Writes he was pleased to receive their letter but that he can only send two a month. Comments on letter s content and notes he had received a postcard from the Red Cross informing him they were forwarding his letters to them. Suggests they cable him via the American consul in Tunis. Writes of his activities over Christmas and notes they have has snow. Writes he would be glad to receive letters from as many people as possible. Mentions he got a pipe for Christmas but tobacco was poor, cigarettes plentiful but strong.
Date
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1940-12-28
Format
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Tow page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401228-02
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Tunisia--Tunis
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1940-12-28
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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Robin Christian
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>
Publisher
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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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PAR. COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX ROUGE F.M.
AGENCE CENTRALE DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE.
GENÉVE.
SUISSE.
[ink stamp] [post mark]
MR. & MRS. HUDSON.
[deleted] 10. MOORSIDE ROAD. [/deleted]
[deleted] KERSAL. [/deleted]
[deleted] SALFORD. 7. [/deleted]
[inserted] 6 Walverden Cres [underlined] NELSON [/underlined][/inserted]
LANCASHIRE.
ANGLETERRE
[page break]
755052. SGT. CHEF. J.D. HUDSON
CAMP DE SÉJOUR SURVEILLÉ
LE KEF. TUNISIE.
AFRIQUE DU NORD.
3-1-41.
My Dear Mother & Dad,
A happy New Year. I hope much better than 1940. We had good weather to begin it with. I have not received any more letters but I expect quite a batch anytime. Write as often as you possibly can. I have not much to say, except that I am still well & hope you are, & I hope you will have received several of my letters by now. They are not very interesting, but they show that I am all right. Cheers now. Very best wishes for Mother’s birthday. All my love, Douglas
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Postcard from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
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Wishes them happy new year and mentions the weather. Reports he is still well and hopes that they would received several of his letter by then.
Date
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1941-01-03
Format
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Handwritten postcard
Language
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eng
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Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE410103
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Switzerland--Geneva
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Nelson
North Africa
Tunisia--El Kef
Switzerland
Temporal Coverage
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1941-01-03
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Robin Christian
prisoner of war
Red Cross
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
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529 items. Collection concerns Pilot Officer James Douglas Hudson, DFC (755052 Royal Air Force) who joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1939 and trained as an observer. While on route to Malta in August 1940 his Blenheim crashed in Tunisia and he was subsequently interned for two and a half years by Vichy French in Tunisia and Algeria. After being freed he returned to Great Britain and after navigator retraining completed a tour of 30 operations on 100 Squadron. The collection contains letters to and from his parents and from French penfriends while interned in Tunisia and Algeria, newspaper cuttings of various events, logbooks and lists of operations, official documents and photographs. A further 23 items are in two sub-collections with details of navigator examinations and postcards of Laghouat Algeria.<br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Elizabeth Smith and Yvonne Puncher and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br />
<p>This collection also contains items concerning Louis Murray and Harry Bowers. Additional information on <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/202827/">Harry Bowers</a> and <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/220410/">Louis Murray</a> is available via the IBCC Losses Database.</p>
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-06-16
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Hudson, JD
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Royal Air Force. 755052. Sgt. J D. Hudson
c/o Consul General des Etats Unis
Rue Michelet.
Algar. Algaric.
Afrique du Nord.
6-1-41.
My Dear Mother & Dad,
I have not received any more letters from you since I wrote to you last. The latest I have had from you to date was written on November 27th. There is very little news at present, Christmas & New Year are now well over and 1942[sic] has arrived bringing with it a spell of weather colder than I anticipated was possible in desert regions. Very strangely, I said in my last letter to you although it is cold it does not rain, or snow. Well later that very afternoon it started snowing in the [indecipherable word], and the following night it rained continuously. In the morning the courtyard looked like the beach after the tide has gone out, with all the sand & pools. Since then it has been cold, cloudy & windy, & unfortunately we have to conserve our[?] small supply of wood for cooking & making tea. Consequently we don’t get much heat in the rooms. As soon as the cloudy period is over it will be all right, because during the daytime when the sun shines it is reasonably warm outside, and we can hang[?] around comfortably. I have three blankets and a great coat which I pile on to my bed so the nights are passed quite warmly. The temperature differences here are remarkable, & the Arabs must be pretty tough to withstand the terrific heat in summer & the cold spells in winter. The civilian Arabs appear to wear the same clothing all the year round, a blanket and a pile of rags. Socks don’t appear to exist. I have started to patch socks. I use patches from an old pair, & also use as darning thread another pair which I unravel as & when required. I still have my flying boots & uniform.
[page break]
We have run out of cigarettes in the camp temporarily. Transport presents the main difficulty. Fortunately I have a few packets in reserve and are better off than most. I learned[?] to try & be prepared for any contingency that might arise. There are no matches and I have sent my lighter to Algar in the hope that it can be repaired. Getting petrol will then be the difficulty so you see how we are placed. The letters I send to you nowadays are supposed to go by Air Mail. They are stamped and I am debited, I think, 4 francs 25 centimes each time. I hope that this will enable you to receive them quicker than of late. Are you still retaining the envelopes as they arrive? I have all yours & hope that one day they will be of interest from the philatelic point of view. I am glad that you have managed to attract a variety of birds into the garden. There are not many birds here, except the sparrows and an occasional small specimen which I am unable to classify. I don’t suppose they will find much to eat except flies in summer, & then they will not go short. The flies here in summer are a loathesome[sic] plague – you would hate them. There have been big changes since I left home & I wonder what the big news[?] will be this year, and if they will help us on our way. The position never presents itself very clearly but we hope[?] what we hope. I think there is an improvement on the position at this time twelve months ago. Twice bitten … We wait as patiently as possible. We also look toward the horizon for the next batch of Red Cross parcels. I expect they will arrive soon, but as I have explained before, transport presents difficulties. I will say good-bye in the usual strain, by sending all my love & best wishes to you both. You are always in my thoughts.
Douglas.
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
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Had not received any letters since he last wrote. Says he has little news to report and comments on the weather with heavy rain and cold. Mentions little wood available for heating making it cold at night. Comments on the locals and their dress. Notes he is patching his socks and still has his flying boots and uniform. Mentions they have run out of cigarettes and continues with other news about his problems and the mail. Mentions local wild life and philosophises about life.
Date
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1941-01-06
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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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE410106
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1941-01-06
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Sue Smith
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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Hudson, JD
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[envelope]
PAR. COMITE INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX ROUGE.
AGENCE[?] CENTRALE DES PRISONNIERS
DE GUERRE
GENEVE
SUISSE
F.M.
MR & MRS HUDSON.
[deleted] 10. MOORSIDE ROAD. KERSAL. SALFORD 7.[?] LANCASHIRE. ANGLETERRE. [/deleted]
[inserted] 6 Walverden[?] Cres. Nelson [/inserted]
[/envelope]
[page break]
755052. Sgt. Chef. J. D. Hudson
Camp de Sejour Survville
LE KEF
Tunisie
Afrique du Nord
10-1-41
My Dear Mother & Dad,
I have written a letter to you today acknowledging receipt of nine letters from you dated Nov 7th to Nov 27th in sequence, & seven others from Calverley & Bury & Prestwick. No need to say how pleased I am. Keep it up please, & [underlined] do [/underlined] write by Air Mail it is much quicker (takes 3 weeks only) I cannot write to other people, but do appreciate their kindness.
The country is much greener now after the snow & there are no flies or insects. In fact it is very pleasant. Under normal conditions life out here for English people would be quite good. One gets used to the different food. And now cheerio, hope you are both keeping well. Best wishes for the 19th.
All my love Douglas
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Title
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Postcard from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
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Catches up with mail sent and received and urges them to sent him post by air mail. Comments that countryside is much greener after the rain and there were no insects and life would be good as long as they got use to the food.
Date
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1941-01-10
Format
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handwritten postcard
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE410110-01
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Tunisia
Tunisia--El Kef
Switzerland
Switzerland--Geneva
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Nelson
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1941-01-10
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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Sue Smith
prisoner of war
Red Cross