1941 (Jul 5) Plain uncensored envelope by registered airmail to Childrens Overseas Reception Board, c/o Travel Department, Bank of N.S.W. Sydney endorsed American Clipper North Atlantic & Trans Pacific route bearing 2/6 brown & 3 x 9d making 4/9 rate t ied oval Registered /Woolwich date stamp & with matching registration label No 2113 plus on reverse Sydney (29 Jul) arrival cds
1919 (Mar 25) Green of buff Easter Greetings, American Expeditionary Force, Army of Occupation, Knights of Columbus printed card to So. Bethlehem, PA cancelled Third Army /APO 710 cds & with partial blue circular A.E.F. Passed As Censored /A.2318
1943(Apr 14) Post card to O.C.A. Rue du Loreto, Lisbonne from J. Vander Steen, Ganshoren bearing pair 50c tied Bruxelles datestamp & censored by circular Wehrmacht censor handstamp & with manuscript Van Der Steen Fernand in red crayon + Lisboa Central (25 Apr) & unframed 26 Abr 1943 transit datestamps + 11 May 1943 arrival handstamp in black………..O.C.A. was Office du Colis Alimentaire at Rue du Loreto 10 in Lisbon used for forwarding mail to Belgian Embassy at 103 Eaton Sq. London
1919 Plain envelope to Geneva bearing 25st tied Stanimaka cds & censored by French Miliary Occupation Forces with oval Controle /8 /Par Autorite Militaire handstamp & with a series of small labels with various manuscript annotations believed to be Red X searchg notes to locate addressee
1941 (Jun 20) Plain envelope to Wellington, New Zealand endorsed Air Mail North Atlantic & Trans Pacific bearing GB GV1 pair 1/- one with corner chipped + 2/6 Brown making 4/6 rate tied Golders Green NW 11 datestamp & allowed to pass uncensored …..The 4/6 rate paid for airmail across the Atlantic across America & over the Pacific.
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1919 (Apr 14) Jewish Welfare Board Passover Greetings from the AEF, France , April 15, 1919-5679 printed stationary post card issued by Jewish Welfare Board, Amex Forces addressed to Philadelphia & endorsed from Pvt. Charles K Smith, Supply Co, 306 F.A. cancelled partial US Army Postal Service/? duplex (MPHS A2011) & with circular AEF Passed as Censored /A 1100 hand stamp in violet ………….Although the US APS number cannot be read the date is clear 14 April 1919 which is one day prior to he imprinted issued date of the card
1943 (Jun 25) Plain envelope together with letter to a Conscientious Objector, Mess 3, Paiaka Camp, Shannon bearing 2d tied faint Nelson machine date stamp with both letter & envelope showing unframed Censored /No /4 hand stamp in violet …………The NZ authorities introduced Conscription in July 1940…Certain categories of individuals objected & out of 3000 appeals heard only 600 were granted leaving 2400 objectors with most of those turned down giving in to the law & serving as required. However 803 refused to comply & were detained. New Zealand’s treatment of these objectors was notably punative and harsh & they were placed in various Military defaulters Camps. NZ apparently had in all 13 Camps & Sub Camps to house these 803 individuals interned for an indefinate period while war lasted. By March 1944, 69 military defaulters had accepted Military Service, 68 were sent to Prison for the duration of the war & a further 66 had been sent to prison for a set duration leaving only 610 in the Camps. The treatment by NZ was such that by December 1945 more than 200 military defaulters were still being held……Mail to or from any of these Military Defaulters is very scarce
1943 (Sep 11) Plain envelope together with letter to a Conscientious Objector, Hautu Camp, Post Office, Turangi via National Park bearing 2d tied Port Nelson (16 Sep) cds with on letter framed without corners joining Censored /No 4 hand stamp in violet & on back Turangi (21 Sep) arrival cds…………The NZ authorities introduced Conscription in July 1940…Certain categories of individuals objected & out of 3000 appeals heard only 600 were granted leaving 2400 objectors with most of those turned down giving in to the law & serving as required. However 803 refused to comply & were detained. New Zealand’s treatment of these objectors was notably punative and harsh & they were placed in various Military defaulters Camps. NZ apparently had in all 13 Camps & Sub Camps to house these 803 individuals interned for an indefinate period while war lasted. By March 1944, 69 military defaulters had accepted Military Service, 68 were sent to Prison for the duration of the war & a further 66 had been sent to prison for a set duration leaving only 610 in the Camps. The treatment by NZ was such that by December 1945 more than 200 military defaulters were still being held……Mail to or from any of these Military Defaulters is very scarce
1940 (Oct) Japanese pictorial printed military letter sheet to Nigata Pref. from soldier Kobayashi, Incue Party, Shimuzu Unit, South China Dispatch & with boxed & unframed Japanese military hand stamps in violet & circular Censor of Kobayashi + unusually censored twice again with orange oval + circular chops of additional censors ……half of closing flap gonr otherwise fine
1905 (Aug 2)[2.8.38] Stampless censored Military letter sheet to Japan cancelled rare FPO 3 located at Sakhalin Island & with boxed cachet of 3rd Company 17th Cavalry Regt Independent 13th Division hand stamp.
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