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1915 (Dec 8) South Africa 4d Registered envelope to wife in Bremen from H. Goldhagen, POW 906, Block E + 3, Internment Camp 4, Pietersmaritzburg, Natal cancelled Registered/Pietersmaritzburg & with framed Registration No 597 hand stamp & with red ink lines annulling registration & with violet unframed Passed By Censor + framed tri-lingual Prisoner of War + Hostile Countries Censor /Salisbury House, London (Mark HS8) + circular Post Free /P.C. /Prisoner of War & black on pink Arms /Opened By Censor label (CCSG 5a) with on reverse violet hooded Registered/London /31 Dec 15/C date stamp……….Mark as at his April 2014 supplement only records 2 examples of HS8 but more than this exist + Mark records 35 examples of CCSG 5A label between 28 Aug – 29 Sep 1914 so this extends that to 31 Dec 1915.