World War 2
Civil censorship, RAF censors
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Items
1916 cover and letter from SALONICA to GB with s/r. TRESOR ET POSTES 502 p/m. over POSTES ET TELEGRAPHES label. From 'C de Putron Major. Salonique'. mss .. "asking Sannail to ask British to give me command .. France. Sir F. Elliot has wired to England asking for me as attache. Tomorrow I am doing a reconnaissance with General Fain RE and Captain Kann ... Bailland". Creased. Ref: 202-024.
1917 cover from MALTA to France with s/r. MALTA p/m. and tri. censor No. 4166 h/s. Also Opened under martial Law label. Ref: 202-086.
1937-45 Picture postcard from Japanese Forces in North China to JAPAN with censor chop. Edge nick. Ref: 193-009.
19139 -45 Picture postcard from Japanese Forces with censor chop and overprinted showing soldier. Creased. Ref: 197-135.
1939 (11th Sept) Air Mail cover [1s.6d RATE] from AUSTRALIA to India with MELBOURNE m/c. and tri. PASSED CENSOR CALCUTTA 4 h/s. Folded. Ref: 200-137.
1939 Air Mail cover + letter from INDIA to USA with d/r. BOMBAY p/m. & OPENED BY EXAMINER 56 label. mss .. "May be you have heard the ship I was onboard is sunk in the Malayan Strait & that is the reason I now go home". NORWAY. [Ref: 191-135]
1939 (Oct) cover from ADEN to GB with diamond PASSED BY CENSOR No. 2 ADEN h/s. From 'c/o ETA, Ras Boradli, ADEN'. Ref: 200-106.
from BURMA with d/r. RANGOON p/m. canc. adhesive with 'BURMA' o/p. + OPENED BY CENSOR H label. Label Type 2H only recorded 13.4.40. Folded.
1939 cover from EGYPT with CAIRO m/c. to "H Dept", PO Box 34 Glasgow with d/r. CENSORSHIP DEPT. h/s.
[Ref: 187-148]
1939 (Sept) cover from EGYPT to GB with circ. Indian FPO 19 p/m. canc. ARMY POST 10 Mills adhesive and boxed Passed by Unit Censor 5 h/s. Folded. Ref: 202-037.
