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1919(Feb 27) PPC entitled Heliopolis – Monument du I.re Aviateur with oval MAIL OFFICE / date / H.M.S. HANNIBAL & sent under separate cover…HMS Hannibal Launched 28 April 1898 & was serving as a guard ship on the Humber when the First World War began in August 1914. On 7 August 1914 Hannibal was transferred to Scapa Flow, where she served as a guard ship until relieved by HMS Royal Arthur on 20 February 1915. September 1915. Hannibal got recommissioned to serve as a troopship in the Dardanelles campaign. She arrived at Mudros in this capacity on 7 October 1915. In November 1915, Hannibal became a depot ship for auxiliary patrol craft at Alexandria, Egypt, supporting both forces operating from Egypt and those in the Red Sea until June 1919,