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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
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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
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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
AUMALE.
Algérie. Afrique du Nord
6-6-41
My Dear Mother & Dad,
Since I wrote my last letter to you from this my latest address, about 4 days ago, I received your letter dated May 2nd & sent by Air Mail. It was written on Dad’s night out & Mother said she was getting brave staying in alone. I hope Dad will not find this duty (I do not know what it is) too tiring & talking about tiring things, I also hope that Mother did not do anything stupid regarding the cleaning of the new home. She said she was going to manage without any help. Here am I getting fat by leading a life of idleness. Believe me it is the worst kind of life I have ever lead, or wished to lead, it requires the patience of ten men. I’d rather do anything than this. It is getting hot now, and this afternoon we are undergoing a thunder storm. At 1 pm. today I washed some clothes for myself & collected them dry at 2.30 pm. Shall do the training when I get home to England. We have an organisation going in this camp. At 8.15 am until 8.45 am we do Physical Training. From 9.30 am until 11 am organised walk. 5 pm to 6 pm football. Next week on account of the hot weather the times will be amended, ie, earlier in the morning & later in the evening for football. The average clothing now is a pair of shorts & a sun helmet, but it is getting dangerous to stay out too
[page break]
long in the sun. There is terrific rain falling now, but when it stops it will be dry in an hour or so. I don’t know if I told you from Kef. that we got a small terrier pup at Christmas. He is still here, & sleeps with us. Yesterday he got a pal, a baby jackal rescued from an Arab (during our walk. The jackal is smaller that the dog but they go everywhere together. I don’t know what will happen when the former grows up. I finished reading my French novel the other day. I have no patience to learn French here when we cannot mix with people. I cannot understand the French Radio or Talkies (basing on my 5 weeks respite in Médéa) although I can read it & write it, talk it passably. I am sorry we left Médéa, by far the fairest spot I have struck in North Africa. On account of the possible uncertainty of our addresses (this is my third address in 6 weeks) I advise you in future to address your letters to me as follows:- J. D. Hudson. AU[deleted]E[/deleted] BONS SOINS DU; CONSUL GÉNÉRAL DES ETATS UNIS; RUE MICHELET 119; ALGÉR; AFRIQUE DU NORD. The first bit means literally “in the good care of the Consul General of the U.S.A.” Continue sending them Air Mail by all means. I do hope that the letters I sent to you from Médéa by Air Mail will get through. I must have sent about 12 in the five weeks. I am continuing to send them by Air Mail, through the Consul, so heres [sic] hoping. Well I must say good-bye again now, with as before & ever, all my best wishes & love to you both. In my last letter I acknowledged receipt of your cable, received on May 30th, my last day in Médéa. Thank you so much for these cables. Again all love, my thoughts are always with you both. Douglas
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
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Notes his new address in Aumale, Algeria and reports on letters received. Catches up on family gossip and contrasts it with his idle life, though this is not what he would wish for. Mentions a little of his activities, routine and weather. Writes of pets they have collected and how he is not getting on with local French language. Says he is sorry they left previous camp and advises them to write to him via the American consul in Algiers.
Date
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1941-06-06
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
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eng
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE410606
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Algeria
Algeria--Algiers
Algeria--Sūr al-Ghuzlān
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1941-06-06
Creator
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James Douglas Hudson
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
prisoner of war
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Wynn, Ian Archer
I A Wynn
Description
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146 Items. Collection concerns Pilot Officer Ian Archer Wynn (1908 - 1943, 146838 Royal Air Force). After training as ground crew he remustered as a flight engineer and flew operations with 100 Squadron. He was killed 25 May 1943 on an operation from RAF Grimsby to Düsseldorf. Collection consists of a diary, a memorial book, an official report on what was his final operation, photographs of his crew, his family and the squadron as well as official correspondence from Air Ministry and British Red Cross, letters of condolence and a large number of letters from Ian Wynn to his wife Kathleen. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Patrick Anthony Wynn and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br /><br />Additional information on Ian Archer Wynn is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/126116/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-07-13
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Wynn, IA
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[envelope]
Mrs K Wynn
Sunny Brae
NORLEY, FRODSHAM
Nr Warrington
[postmark]
MILDENHALL
BURY ST. EDMUNDS
6 JUN
1941
[/postmark]
[1 D Postage stamp]
[page break]
Reverse of envelope, no marks
[page break]
Newquay 1
[underlined] Wednesday [/underlined]
[inserted] PS I could do with another Pad like this please [/inserted]
Darling
Thanks for the letter, I am pleased to hear that you managed a lesson or two. I would not go to Wyrley with Eric though it might seem funny to them. If you write to Dad’s ask him to see Fred & [corrected] Exchange [/corrected] some coupons for some transport coupons which you can cash anywhere, you should obtain a (Form RMS 5) to send for some to the Regional controller & state that your Dad covers about 90 miles a week. The consumption of that Morris is about 33 M. PG.
I hope you can read this I am sunbathing on the Beach. I have finish my work for today
[page break]
so I have lopped it. It is not so hot today though. Yesterday I was here well after noon & am getting as brown as a berry. In fact my face is copper coloured now.
I am having a grand time now I work like hell in the morning & then I am free in the afternoons I wish you & the kids were here too though. I have had a swim although the atlantic [sic] is a bit too chilly for me yet. If it was not the fact that 99% of the people here were in uniform you would think it was the holiday period at its peak with the crowds on the Beach.
There are crowds of kids here umpteen schools have been evacuated from the London area
[page break]
[underlined] 3 [/underlined]
Also there are Mothers and women too so the place is generally [corrected] crowded [/corrected] out There is at the moment a crowd of convent kids [corrected] buzzing [/corrected] around! & I can hardly hear myself think.
This scribble is far worse than my than my usual I know but I cannot get in a really comfortable position for writing
By the way cant [sic] you get any more tobacco now? I was rather disappointed that there was none in with my pullover which is very nice & Thank you for the same XXX. Oh! I passed the maths exam of it all (only just) & what do you think I came out top in PSycological [sic] Test. Competing against Mas BSc & Dr Ph etc [sic] also top in the Antigas [sic] exam & if I had taken the Aircraft Recognition exams I would have had 100%. I liked [indecipherable] stuck I would have a choice well into
[page break]
[underlined] 4 [/underlined]
By the way. You have never mentioned my watch once?
Will you ask pop to have a look at that Pocket Watch in the Dressing table draw I think that it just needs fingers.
[corrected] Boy [/corrected] Jove you’d Larf [sic] I [corrected] have [/corrected] just had a bunch of Br [indecipherable] of any things park their blooming carcasses next to me here (From a finishing school). One has just informed the world at large that she must just simply finish orf [sic] a letter to her Grandpopah [sic]! Dear oh Dear! Isnt [sic] Laife [sic] in this awful place Vaile! [sic] Gor [sic] Blimey!!!
I had to pack up this noon I couldnt [sic] stick that crush
[page break]
[inserted] 5 [/inserted]
So when I was coming Back to the hotel I was collared by this Sargeant [sic] to check over some stores so could not finish this note off.
In a way it is a good thing because I may have some news in the morning as to whether I am likely to be moved soon or not so Ill [sic] tell you if I can do
I have heard the news of the raids in L pool my word they have had it bad & of course it is worrying with you being so near too I shall be glad when that shelter is done.
By the way have you used that Gal [Gallon] of Petrol in [corrected] shed [/corrected] (The Bottom tin behind the door)
That Battery in the car is not much good. Run it on FULL CHARGE all the while & ask Pop to listen out for a new Battery (second hand) Still if you can manage a little
[page break]
longer Ill [sic] see what I can do.
Maybe Eric Woodward can get one? ask him. By the way you had better get Eric some Cigs or [underlined] something [/underlined]
[underlined] Thursday [/underlined]
Well I have been to the Orderly Room & the nearest they can tell me is that it may be a month or it may only be a fortnight before I am moved but they could not give me any [corrected] date [/corrected] when. I would think anyway that I would be nearer home.
I have just got your letter & I have already replied to
Q [underlined] 1 [/underlined] Re extra petrol
Q [underlined] 2 [/underlined] Re Remittance. That is the first time I had heard that you know how much you had to pay. Pay £ [underlined] 2-15.0 [/underlined] stating that 10/- had been deducted for Agency Commission.
Qu [underlined] 3 [/underlined] I have replied to this sometime back & said it was a good idea.
Love to all
Ian.
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Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
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Writes while sunbathing on the beach. Describes life in Newquay mentioning numbers of evacuated children and some aspects of his training. Engages in banter and relates some events. Talks about their car and speculates over his future moves. Discusses finances. Envelope is postmarked Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and it is possible envelope is not associated with letter.
Date
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1941-06-06
Format
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Six page handwritten letter and envelope
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eng
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EWynnIAWynnK410606
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Warrington
England--Cornwall (County)
England--Newquay
England--Suffolk
England--Bury St. Edmunds
England--Mildenhall (Suffolk)
England--Cheshire
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1941-06-06
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Ian Archer Wynn
evacuation
home front
military living conditions
military service conditions
training
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Title
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Green, Alan William
A W Green
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-09-19
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Green, AW
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58 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Alan William Green (b. 1920, 104402, 1150518 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs, diary and correspondence. He flew operation as a navigator with 218 Squadron before being shot down and becoming a prisoner of war.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Stuart Green and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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POST OFFICE TELEGRAM
Post Mark Coventry Wks -6 JNE 41
219 NIL 4 PICTONONT 7/14
EFN GREEN HOLLINGWORTH FIRS ESTATE KENILWORTH RD COVENTRY
CABLE RECEIVED LETTER COMING KEEP SMILING
GREEN
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Alan writes that a letter has been received.
Creator
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Alan Green
Date
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1941-06-06
Format
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One typewritten sheet
Language
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eng
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EGreenAWGreenWH-[Mo]410606
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Coventry
Canada
Ontario--Picton
Ontario
England--Warwickshire
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Jan Waller
Temporal Coverage
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1941-06-06
Title
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Telegram from Alan Green to his father
aircrew
training