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![1941-45 'POW 9' l/s's [5 No.] South AFRICA to Italy with different imprint Nos.](https://www.warcovers.co.uk/shop/images/T/xctmpE5O0sM.jpg)
1941-45 'POW 9' l/s's [5 No.] from South AFRICA to Italy with different imprint Nos. Ref: 312-099.
1941-45 cover from AUSTRALIA No. 2 Camp Tatura to 'Jewish Welfare Society' with 3 Opened by Censor label tied by diamond 3 PASSED BY CENSOR 143 h/s. From 'Georg Moses'. Ref: 301-147.
1942 'EXPRES' cover from BELGIUM to 'lager 8, Leipzig, Germany' with s/r. ANTWERP p/m. and tied Geoffnet censor label. Also d/r. LEIPZIG receipt p/m. [Stalag IV-G was a POW Camp for NCOs and enlisted men, not in the usual sense, but a series of "Work Camps" throughout Saxony, administered from Oschatz, situated between Leipzig and Dresden.] Ref: 304-147.
1942 Air Mail POW PC from GERMANY to India [25 Pf RATE] with tri. Camp censor h/s. From 'Lt. Col. Tosco Peppe' Oflag IX A. NB Folded. Ref: 310-024.
1942 cover from ALGERIA to GB with s/r. LAGHOUAT / ALGER p/m. and d/r. D'INTERNMENT DES / MILITAIRES BRITANIQUE h/s. and PC 90 OBE 7759 label. From 'Leading Steward A Walker, Camp des Internes Britanniques' - British sailor. The Vichy French ran LAGHOUAT POW Camp in the Saharah Desert. It was notorious for poor conditions, the men were given very little food or water. Ref: 309-154.
1942 cover from ALGERIA to GB with s/r. LAGHOUAT / ALGER p/m. and circ. Camp cachet h/s. Also PC 90 OBE 3001 label. From 'Sgt. Marshall Hardy, Camp des Internes Britanniques' - British Airman. [Aircrew from 202 Squadron: Shot down by two Vichy French Curtiss fighters 40 miles off Casablanca. Survived for 5 hours and picked up by submarine. POW from Sept. 1940 to Nov. 1942] The Vichy French ran LAGHOUAT POW Camp in the Saharah Desert. It was notorious for poor conditions, the men were given very little food or water. Faults. Ref: 313-085.
1942 (May) Air Mail cover from GERMANY to POW at 'Camp Dhurringile, Victoria, Australia' with 3 tied censor labels: German, British and Australian. Also 'Taxe percue 40 Rpf' in mss. The 65-room Dhurringile mansion: for 50 German Officers and their batmen including Captain Detmers of HSK Kormoran. [Scuttled following battle, 19 Nov. 1941] Camp located: in the Tatura District of Victoria. Edge nick. Ref: 304-099.
1942 Air Mail cover from INDIA to '2nd Lieut. EM Chambers, POW in Italian Hands, Switzerland' with d/r. COONDOOR p/m. and tied PC 90 OBE label. Ref: 310-019.
1942 cover from South AFRICA to 'SWA' with oval INTERNMENT CAMP /ANDALUSIA h/s. and bi-lingual PASSED BY CENSOR h/s. From 'Internment Lager Andalusia, 1271/40, c/o Censors Office Bloemfontein'. Ref: 314-109.
1942 Identity card from East Africa with oval POLITICAL BRANCH EAC HQ NAIROBI h/s. Ethiopian POW. Records of inoculation 1946. Faults. Ref: 309-104.
1942 (Nov) PC Internment Camp, JAMAICA, BWI to USA with Crown PASSED D/5 h/s. and oval INTERNMENT & P of W Camp / JAMAICA h/s. 'From : No. 41'. POW. BWI - British West Indies. Ref: 312-122.
1942 POW l/s. from GB to ITALY and censored with No. 36 POW CAM P / GREAT BRITAIN h/s. - Hartwell Dog Track Camp, Hartwell, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Ref: 301-056.
1942 POW l/s. from GB to Italy with oval No. 73 Camp POW h/s. - ? North Cave Satellite Camp, Brough, Yorkshire. Great Britain. Censored. Soiled. Ref: 302-131.
1942 POW lettersheet from AUSTRALIA to Italy with tied '3 Opened by Censor' label and boxed No. 5 PW GROUP Myrtleford AUSTRALIA h/s. Also tied CENSURA label. Prisoner of War. Ref: 311-034.
![1942 printed Red Cross PC [MOD. 10] ITALY regarding POW in India to 'P.M. 220 T'](https://www.warcovers.co.uk/shop/images/T/xctmpKTmExa.jpg)
1942 (Nov) printed Red Cross PC [MOD. 10] from ITALY regarding POW in India to 'P.M. 220 T'. Ref: 314-047.
1942 Red Cross letter and photo regarding 'Denis Solivon, ERA, HMS "DUNEDIN". [HMS Dunedin was patrolling between Brazil and Africa when she was sunk on the 24th. Nov. 1941. Two torpedoes from the German submarine U-124 hit her and she sank rapidly. Only four officers and 63 men survived out of the Dunedin’s crew of 486 officers and men] mss .. "...the likeness in photograph gave her must now be abandoned" - football team from Stalag VIII B. Re: 314-028.
1942 Red Cross Message Form from ITALY to ERITREA with Red Cross cachets and s/r. PASSED BY 11 CENSOR / PASSATO PER CENSURA h/s. Folded. Ref: 301-073.
1942 Red Cross PC from ITALY to 'Camp 32, Union of South Africa'. Adhesives removed by censor and boxed P/w MIDDLE EAST 007 h/s. placed over. Edge nick. Ref: 307-090.
1942-43 POW l/s's from South AFRICA to Italy and censored. From 'Hospital POW'. POW 9 l/s. by Airmail with Imprint: GP-S.35097-1942-3-720,000.S. The other with Imprint: GP-S. 35490-1941-2-750,000.S. Ref: 301-004.
![1942-46 'POW 10' PC's [5 No.] South AFRICA to Italy with different imprint Nos.](https://www.warcovers.co.uk/shop/images/T/xctmpKk0Okr.jpg)
1942-46 'POW 10' PC's [5 No.] from South AFRICA to Italy with different imprint Nos. All censored and one with d/r. Philippolis p/m. Ref: 312-100.
