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 |
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1917 (Xmas) real photo PPC from 'HMS Calliope' Somewhere on the North Sea. with s/r. 8 bar dumb p/m. and s/l. PASSED BY CENSOR h/s. [Sept. 1917: Calliope helped to sink four German trawler minesweepers in the North Sea off the coast of Jutland.] Ref: 304-136.
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: 301-030.
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 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 [Real photo 'French-Algerian'] from GERMANY to GB with LONDON PAID m/c. and censored. From 'Pte. James Brown, Stuttgart, Germany' POW. Ref: 303-062.
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: 302-078.
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: 301-097.
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 (Ipswich) with d/r. APO (HD) 46 p/m. - Home Defence, Black Heath Camp, Ipswich [From May to Sept. 1917]. Ref: 313-020.
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 [German patriotic anthem] AUSTRIA with d/r. STEYR p/m.](https://www.warcovers.co.uk/shop/images/T/xctmpMivqki.jpg)
1917 PPC [German patriotic anthem] from AUSTRIA with d/r. STEYR p/m. Es braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall: The watch on the Rhine (There's a shout like Donnerhall) Corner nick. Ref: 304-040.
![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'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 (Jan) printed 'Feldpostbrief' cover and letter from GERMANY to 'Eastern Front' with d/r. HANNOVER p/m. Ref: 305-055.
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.
1917 real photo PPC from GERMANY to GB with London Paid m/c. and Camp censor h/s. From 'Herbert Longbottom, RND., Doberitz Camp'. Ref: 311-008.
1917 real photo PPC from GERMANY to GB with London Paid m/c. and Camp censor h/s. From 'Pte. WC Geoging 6295, 2nd. Suffolk Regt., Doberitz Camp'. Ref: 311-008.
