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
1940? cover from USA to GB with PC 90 OPENED BY EXAMINER 7379 label tied by s/r. Traveller Censorship Office / London h/s. Type H 10 A. From "Washington".
[Ref: 187-048]
1940 Air Mail cover from GB to CHINA with PC 90 OPENED BY EXAMINER label and PASSED HONG KONG 9 CENSOR. Also VICTORIA, TIENTSIN and PEKING postmarks to rear. Ref: 194-010.
1940 cover from ICELAND to GB with d/r. FPO 306 p/m. and tri. PASSED BY CENSOR No. 3217 h/s. Roughly opened. Ref: 199-117.
1940 cover from IRAN to INDIA with tied OPENED BY CENSOR label. Folded & roughly opened.
[Ref: 188-019]
1940 cover from LEBANON to Italy with PASSEZ I'HIVER AU LIBAN BEYROUTH m/c. and CONTROLE POSTAL MILITAIRE label tied by Free French censor h/s. 'P C O2 M B'. Censor mark of the Levant period I. Faults. Ref: 201-050.
1940 cover with s/r. OFFICIAL PAID / LIVERPOOL p/m. with PERMIT BRANCH / No. 9 / AINTREE, LIVERPOOL h/s. Censor Office cachet. Ref: 195-125.
1940 cover from MALAYA with d/r. KUALA LUMPUR p/m. & tri. PASSED FOR / TRANSMISSION / 49 / SINGAPORE h/s. Type 6A.
[Ref: 189-179]
1940 cover from MALAYA to HMS Challenger with d/r. KUALA LUMPUR p/m. & PERFIN to adhesive. Also unframed PASSED / FOR / TRANSMISSION h/s.
[Ref: 188-015]
1940 cover endorsed 'On Active Service' to New Zealand with d/r. FPO 455 p/m. New Zealand Exp. Force. Roughly opened.
[Ref; 190-068]
1940 cover from PALESTINE to Switzerland with circ. HAIFA p/m. and H. No. 44 Opened by Censor label tied by boxed PALESTINE OPENED AND PASSED BY CENSOR No. H 27 h/s. Imprint: 31278-250900-13.9.39-G.C.P. Ref: 194-006.
