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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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RAF badge
R.A.F.
Bicester
22-6-40
Dear Mother & Dad,
Thank you for your letter written on Thursday which arrived this morning, announcing the air raid warning, and enclosing Ulula[?] & the Annual 6.M.a. Report.
I can imagine it would be alarming having that wretched siren howling away, but I am glad that no ‘planes appeared. I suppose you will get the warnings without there necessarily being hostile aircraft actually present.
I expect Lichmans[?] will be proud of their son. I was very surprised to read of his bravery. I notice that Spunk[?] (he was in my forms(?) is a Lieutenant in the Indian Army. I was also very surprised to learn that.
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I think I should definitely send my name up for inclusion in the list on the Roll of service. I have not paid my subscription, but I believe that doesn’t matter now there is a war on.
I received the photos tonight and I am sending these herewith. They are poor, but I cannot get any better ones done here. I have numbered the photos at the back 1 and 2. I think number 2 is the better one by far and I wonder if you would like an enlargement, or a coloured enlargement. If so write back straight away telling[?] the number 1 or 2 (I should prefer No. 2) and I will arrange to have one done & sent on when I leaver here. I think the enlargements come up rather better.
I am hoping in due course to have a better quality ‘photo taken altogether, when I can
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find a suitable photographer.
I should have done a long flight today, but the weather cancelled it entirely. I am not really sorry because my left arm is very stiff & sore as a result of those wretched inoculations. I expect to fly tomorrow afternoon instead and that will leave 48 hours after inoculations, but now of course all that business[?] is to blazes.[?] I have done very little flying since I was home last, I mean comparatively[?] We have all been very surprised.
I am writing this letter on Sat. night, and shall post it on Sunday in the hope that it will arrive first thing on Monday am.
And so good night.
Love, Douglas.
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Title
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Description
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Writes thanking them for letter which announced air raid warnings and commenting on how they might affect his parents even though no aircraft appeared. Catches up with news of people. Writes that he is sending photographs and asks if they would like any enlargements. Hopes he will be able to get better quality photograph sin the future. Mentions that that days flight was cancelled due to weather but he expects to fly the next day.
Date
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1940-06-22
Format
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Three page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE400622
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Oxfordshire
Temporal Coverage
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1940-06-22
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
Contributor
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Sue Smith
RAF Bicester