World War 2
Civil censorship, RAF censors
| WW2: BEF - Blitz - ‘D’ day (Normandy / Dunkirk) Battle of Britain - Spitfire - Pearl Harbour - Tobruck - Free French - RAF POW Camps - Auschwitz - Airgraphs - Air Letters - Atomic bomb - Nazis Hitler / Churchill / Rommel / Stalin - Naval Battles - Army - Air Force - Invade - Siege - Offensive - Riot - Revolt - Bomb |
Items
1937-45 Picture postcard from Japanese Forces in North China to JAPAN with censor chop. Edge nick. Ref: 193-009.
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]
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 Air Mail cover from INDIA to GB [14 Annas] with tri. PASSED CENSOR CALCUTTA 6 h/s. Flap missing.
[Ref: 188-034]
1939 cover from India to GB with tri. PASSED CENSOR QUETTA 2 h/s. NB: Opens out. Faults. [Ref: 191-108]
1939 cover from MALAYA to GB with d/r. PENANG p/m. and boxed PASSED BY 3 CENSOR h/s. Also blank boxed handstamp. Ref: 195-062.
1939 [13th AUG] cover from PARAQUAY [South America] to GERMANY with ASCUCION p/m. & Great Britain PC 66 OPENED BY CENSOR 1016 label. Early censor.
[Ref: 187-191]
1939 (Oct. 13th.) cover from UGANDA to USA with s/r. TORORO p/m. and OPENED BY CENSOR label. Also PASSED BY CENSOR MOMBASSA 4 h/s. KENYA. Late recording. Ref: 194-007.
1939 OHMS cover with LIVERPOOL PAID m/c. to 'HQ Coastal Command, RAF, Northwood' & d/r. POSTAL CENSORSHIP MC5 WAR OFFICE h/s. Type L2.
[Ref: 189-131]
