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
1942-45 Air Mail cover from PAPUA, NG to Australia with NAVAL / SERVICE canc. 3d. adhesive and HM AUSTRALIAN SHIPS h/s. Also Royal Navy tomb censor with 2 OBC label tied by diamond h/s. Sydney. Ref: 306-036.
1942-45 cover from the Royal Navy to 'Third Officer GS Rose, WRNS, HMS VECTIS, Cowes, Isle of Wight' and redirected with tomb censor to rear. [HMS Vectis: a shore establishment at Cowes Castle, Isle of Wight] Ref: 311-067.
1942-45 Royal Navy Honour Envelope to Australia with PASSED FREE / OF POSTAGE h/s. and 3 ObC label [Smith 3-8a] tied by diamond Censor 158 h/s. Used by Australian Navy. Ref: 312-147.
![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.
1943 'Cable & Wireless' Telegram from OVERSEAS to GB with octagonal PASSED BY CENSOR No. T5 h/s. Ref: NB: Faults. 315-025.
1943 'GPO GREETINGS' envelope to 'RAOC, Chart Lane' redirected to 'Try 159 Pioneer Coy, c/o APO Canterbury' with ASHFORD and CANTERBURY p/m's. Roughly opened. Ref: 317-030.
1943 'View Letter Card' from KENYA to GB with d/r. EA APO 83 p/m. and RAF censor R11/74 h/s. - HQ 246 Wing, Mombasa. East Africa. Six pictures inside. Ref: 310-012.
1943 'YMCA' cover and letter from 'MEF' to New Zealand with s/r. MPO / KW p/m. and weak censor h/s. From 'Dvr. A. Buckley, 1 NZ Sup. Coy., 2nd NZEF, MEF'. YMCA NEW ZEALAND. NATIONAL PATRIOTIC FUND BOARD. ON ACTIVE SERVICE notepaper. Ref: 320-027.
1943 (1st. April) letter only MV "Daphnella, c/o Anglo Saxon Pet. Co., London". mss .. "write to ... c/o Captain GE Divine, Messrs Fox, Falmouth". From 'Kim Ball'. Merchant Marine on Convoy. Ref: 311-100.
1943 (April) 'Official' photographs ITALY - La Spezia bomb damage by RAF Bomber Command (Reconnaissance 19.4.43) Photograph Nos. C. 3511 and 3512 with typed details to rear. 300 x 250 mm. Ref: 311-172.
1943 (April) Air Letter from GB to 'Captain AR Thor RA, 12th. AAGOR, Malta'. [Anti Aircraft Gun Operations Room] From 'AA Thor, BRCS Ambulance Unit, CRS Park Hall Camp, Oswestry, Shropshire'. Ref: 310-051.
1943 (April) Falklands TELEGRAM (Decode) regarding: Circular No. 48 . SECRET. 'General Recyphering Tables No. 32'. From His Excellency the Governor with d/r. FOLIO h/s. 215 x 170 mm. Ref: 320-110.
1943 (Aug) Letter Card 'HMS Pathfinder' to GB with poor (FPO) 185 p/m. and tomb censor h/s. Also with 3 Mess Bills and another letter. From 'Midn. AP Barter'. Located Bizerte [Tunisia] Aug. 1943. Ref: 312-008.
1943 (Aug) RUSSIA. Official USSR photograph 'Soviet outpost on the LENINGRAD Front'. No. 4398.XL. Typed details to rear. 200 x 150 mm. Ref: 312-102.
1943 (Dec) POW l/s. from Southern RHODESIA to Italy with Crown PASSED DE/30 h/s. From. Camp No. 5 - Fort Victoria. Internment Camp. Ref: 319-084.
1943 (Feb) Booklet of 'Postage Stamps issued by The Vatican City State' 14 pages. All 14 adhesives canc. with d/r. CITIA del VATICANO / POSTE p/m. [Postage stamps issued by the Vatican City State : in commemoration of the fourth centenary of the opening of the Sacred Council of Trent (1545-1945)] Ref: 306-087.
1943 (Feb) cover from AUSTRALIA to GB [1d. RATE] with tied 3 OBC label and boxed CONCESSION POSTAL RATE h/s. From 'Chaplin the Rev. HH Perrottel, Cowra Military Camp, NSW'. [Cowra was purpose-built to house prisoners of war, mostly Italians, brought to Australia from overseas. The Cowra Military Training Camp for the Australian Imperial Force housed 80,000 to 100,000 soldiers between 1940 and 1947] Ref: 307-012.
1943 (June) Air Mail cover from SPAIN to Switzerland and censored. Regarding Spanish Blue Division soldier taken POW in Russia. 372 members of the Blue Division, they were taken prisoner by the victorious Red Army. Ref: 310-100.
1943 (June) POW PC from ALGERIA to Italy and censored. From Depot: 'Boghar'. [a town and commune in Médéa Province] Ref: 319-081.
1943 (June) Registered Letter from GB to 'Sgt. JF Clayton P/JX 262997, HMS Hydrangea, c/o GPO London'. Ref: 312-010.
