| Place | Middle East |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | PR85/201 |
| Collection type | Private Record |
| Record type | Collection |
| Measurement | 1 wallet: 3 cm. |
| Object type | Diary, Photograph, Document, Souvenir, Serial |
| Maker |
Dudley, Job |
| Place made | At sea, British Mandate of Palestine: Palestine, Egypt |
| Date made | 1939-1943 |
| Access | Open |
| Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM315 421/011/022 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction. |
Dudley, Job (Major, b.1906) and Dudley (nee Bray), Nora Hilda (Sister)
Description
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX5087 Lieutenant Job Dudley, 2/6 Infantry Battalion and HQ AIF (Middle East) Feinforcement Depot, and his wife Sister Nora Hilda Dudley (nee Bray) of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.
Collection consists of a diary kept by Lt Dudley between January and March 1941. The diary covers Dudley's embarkation, life aboard ship, short stop in Colombo, passage through the Suez Canal, and final arrival in Palestine. It also includes sight seeing in Jerusalem, a period in hospital for appendicitis, relocation to Cairo, more sight seeing and life in camp. At this point the diary entries stop and re-commence for February, March and July 1942. He comments on his time spent in Gaza, time as an Acting Staff Captain, the people he met and places he visited. The diary contains a couple of signed menus kept as souvenirs.
Lieutenant Job Dudley married Sister Nora Hilda Bray in Jerusalem in December 1942.
Included in the material related to Sister Nora Hilda Bray are three photographs, an officer's identity card and three identity certificates in a small wallet, three copies of a troop movement order, an Officer's Advance Book (Pay), a Christmas card, and three news clippings / extracts from various magazines.