World War 1
Censored postcards, Naval censors
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1917 (June - Sept) covers from the Western Front to 'UB Gilbert, 140 Siege Battery, BEF, France' and 'No 2 Red Cross Hospital, c/o APO 2' and redirected to GB. Covers with d/r. FPO H.18 and APO S43 and S65 p/m's. All censored. [XIVth Corps Heavy Artillery Casualties to Officers dated Sept. 1917: 2nd Lieutenant U. B. Gilbert, 140th Siege Battery was take sick on 7 Sept. 1917 and invalided to England on 25 Sept. 1917. Officer Urban Baly Gilbert 2nd Lt RGA (later Lt and A/Capt). Posted to France 9/11/16. Service record held at the National Archives: Reference WO 339/38897] Faults. Ref: 309-052.
1917 Feldpost PC '22nd. Inf. Div' to Germany. KuK Feldpostexp. p/m. and returned with d/r. MUNCHEN transit p/m. Ref: 320-007.
1917 Field Service PC from FRANCE to Ireland with d/r. Indian FPO 19 p/m. and censor 2679 h/s. Faults. Ref: 315-092.
1917 (5-6th. May) from FRANCE original parchment 'GALANT CONDUCT' report 'No. G/233G'. [60 x 100 mm.]Signed 'R.P. Lee', Major General, Commanding 18th. Division regarding 'L/Cpl. A. Lavender. 8th. (S) BN. Royal Sussex Regt. (Pioneers) at 'Cherisy'. Fighting on Hindenburg Line 3rd. May. Spike holes. Ref: 312-020.
1917 front from DOMINICA to USA endorsed 'via Bermuda' with s/r. DOMINICA / GPO p/m. and circ. P.C. / BERMUDA h/s. From 'Roseau, Dominica, BWI'. NB: FRONT. Ref: 314-035.
1917 (May) front with NAVAL MAIL OFFICE-DOVER. RE-SEALED UNDER / CENSORSHIP label tied by d/r. LONDON p/m. and s/l. CEN(41)SOR h/s. - RNAS Monitor. Label Imprint: [3097] 21707/M2613 5000 8/16T G&S 112. NB: FRONT, repaired. Ref: 312-056.
1917 Letter Card Salisbury Plain with d/r. BULFORD CAMP p/m. From '143 Section H.A.M.T., Bulford' with 9 pictures of the area including 'YMCA Hut, No. 1 Larkhill Camp'. Ref: 322-021.
1917 Obituary Prayer Card for German Soldier, 'Lorenz Stettmer' died 21st. July 1917 and one for 'Johann Walter' with surface faults. [Death cards are single or folded notes that list the most important life information about the deceased and are generally distributed to mourners during a memorial service] Religious scene with injured solders to rear. Faults. Ref: 322-085.
1917 (July) PC 'British Red Cross Society (Hereford and District Branch)' with HEREFORD m/c. Ref: 317-005.
1917 PC 'British Red Cross' from SERBIA, to Alger, with s/r. 'BIZERTE / TUNISIE / 27.4.17' p/m. and boxed handstamp 'CENSURE/MILITAIRE' in violet. Ref: 321-156.
1917 POW cover from Isle of Man to Holland with tied OPENED BY CENSOR PW 167 label to rear. From 'Knockaloe Camp I, Peel'. Ref: 308-093.
1917 (30th. Aug) PPC [Comic] 'HMS Marlborough' to GB with s/r. 8 bar dumb p/m. and PASSED / BY CENSOR h/s. Fred Spurgin - All dressed up and no place to go'. [Iron Duke-class battleship. Toward the end of 1917, the Germans began using destroyers and light cruisers to raid the British convoys to Norway; this forced the British to deploy capital ships to protect the convoys] Ref: 318-086.
1917 PPC (Happy Christmas from the Balklans) from SALONICA to '36th Stationary Hospital, EEF' with d/r. APO SX6 p/m. and censor 7/105 h/s. Force to Force. Ref: 311-153.
1917 PPC (Happy Christmas from the Balkans) from SALONIKA to GB with d/r. APO SX6 p/m. and censor 391 h/s. Located: Vertekop. Ref: 310-149
1917 (Jan) PPC (RMS 'ATHENTIC') to New Zealand with s/r. PASSED BY CENSOR No. 20 NZ h/s. New Zealand Troopship "Athentic". Ref: 315-145.
1917 PPC [Tantah] from EGYPT to GB with s/r. APO SZ26 p/m. and part s/r. CAT / TPO p/m. Travelling Post Office. Also tri. censor 3703 h/s. Ref: 310-137.
1917 (Oct) PPC from FRANCE to GB with part d/r. S.5 p/m. and polygon PASSED NAVAL CENSOR h/s. RNAS [Royal Naval Air Service] From 'AJ Wheeler No. 224013 Mess 23, Ecole d 'Aviation Brit, Vendome, France'. Ref: 321-034.
1917 PPC from GB to 'Pte. J Reeves, No. 2 Platoon, 48 Labour Coy, BEF, France' and redirected to 'c/o O.C., IV Cavalry Division'. Ref: 317-003.
1917 PPC [Real photo 'French-Algerian'] from GERMANY to GB with LONDON PAID m/c. and censored. From 'Pte. James Brown, Stuttgart, Germany' POW. Ref: 320-103.
1917 (Aug) comic PPC [Prost Rest Kamerad] from GERMANY with s/r. KAIS DEUTSCHE MARINE SCHIFFSPOST p/m. From 'SMS Westfalen' and censored. [SMS Westfalen was one of the Nassau-class battleships, the first four dreadnoughts built for the German Imperial Navy. The ship remained in port (Kiel) for the majority of 1917] Ref: 317-067.
