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1939(Sep 15)Envelope to Plymouth with large ON ACTIVE SERVICE / NO STAMPS AVAILABLE cancelled London / Received From / H.M. Ships machine cancel with unframed PASSED / BY / CENSOR (Daynes N568) of HMS Bramble located at Scapa Flow yet with unframed 1½d I.S. / T tax mark & ½d & 1d Postage Due adhesives tied Roborough /Plymouth Devon (16 Sep) cds……………………Roborough is a tiny village with a population in 1940 of only a couple hundred, the war not yet 2 weeks old. HMS Bramble was later sunk by German destroyers during the battle of the Barents Sea on 31 Dec 42