World War 1
Censored postcards, Naval censors
| WW1: - Coronel & Falklands - Naval Battle - Western Front (Somme / Verdun) - Dardanelles / Gallipoli - Jutland Battle - Emden sunk - Airship / Zeppelin - Hospital / Hopital ships - Lusitania sunk - RFC - Lenin / Pershing / Kitchener - Tank - U-boat / Submarine - POW - Occupation |
Items
1917 (July) PC 'British Red Cross Society (Hereford and District Branch)' with HEREFORD m/c. Ref: 317-005.
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 PPC 'Economy Means "GOING SHORT" - every girl should economize, and in War-time wear much less' with HARROGATE m/c. Ref: 306-026.
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 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 (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.
1917 PPC Inns of Court, London 'OTC - The Devil's Own' with part d/r. BERKHEMPSTEAD p/m. The regiment (motto ‘The Devil’s Own’) was an Officer Training Corps, preparing newly recruited officers for the horrors of the front line. Ref: 319-107.
1917 circa. PPC of KIRKWALL to Lincoln with circ. dumb p/m. and light oval CENSORED / HOXA h/s. - Gould 2B15. Artillery Unit - HOXA entrance channel to Scapa Flow. Navy. Naval. Ref: 318-125.
1917 [Nov] PPC (Durban) from MESOPOTAMIA to GB with d/r. Indian FPO 329 p/m. [Located: Basra-Magil] and circ. CENSORED / D h/s. over. mss .. "we landed in Mespot .. on 19th Oct". [modern-day Iraq] Ref: 309-146.
1917 (April) PPC from TANGANYIKA to GB with d/r. Indian FPO 343 p/m. and boxed PASSED BY / POSTAL CENSOR / DARESSALAM h/s. [Type 23. Hoffman] German East Africa. DAR ES SALAM. Ref: 313-028.
1917 PPC (Edinburgh) with circ. 8 bar dumb p/m. and boxed PASSED BY CENSOR / HMS "WOOLWICH" h/s. Royal Navy Depot ship. Naval. Ref: 310-131.
![1917 PPC [Cairo] from EGYPT to GB. APO SZ13 p/m. tri. censor h/s.](https://www.warcovers.co.uk/shop/images/T/xctmpKkIFzB.jpg)
1917 PPC [Cairo] from EGYPT to GB with s/r. APO SZ13 p/m. and tri. censor h/s. Ref: 313-093.
![1917 PPC [Happy Christmas from the Balkans] SALONICA to GB. FPO 79 p/m.](https://www.warcovers.co.uk/shop/images/T/xctmpLmmkIX.jpg)
1917 PPC [Happy Christmas from the Balkans] from SALONICA to GB with d/r. FPO 79 p/m. and censor 7/208 h/s. Ref: 311-076.
![1917 PPC [Suffolk Regt] with FELIXSTOWE / SUFFOLK p/m.](https://www.warcovers.co.uk/shop/images/T/xctmpuKobSo.jpg)
1917 PPC [Suffolk Regt] with s/r. FELIXSTOWE / SUFFOLK p/m. and circ. CLAYDON / IPSWICH receipt p/m. From 'Albert Waspa'. Ref: 316-108.
1917 PPC's to '2nd AM JR Page, Royal Flying Corps'. One to Halton Camp East' and the other to '12th Squadron, 12th Wing, RFC, BEF, France' and redirected to 'No. 1 AD' with poor m/c. [Battle honours: Arras, Cambrai 1917] Ref: 307-104.
1917 (Oct) printed 'Graphic' The Active Service PC from FRANCE to New Zealand with d/r. APO S.W.Z p/m. and censor h/s. From 'Len Gill'. Ref: 309-067.
