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1944 (Apr 16) COMITE INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX – ROUGE / GENEVE (Suisse) printed Red Cross Message form to Italian Internee held in Eritrea from Novara in Northern Italy with red 34mm circular Italian Red Cross handstamp together with red standard Red Cross cachet of Geneva & rare violet lozenge ERITREA PASSED BY EXAMINER 10 (CCSG IX) & with Decametre / Eritrea (13 Sept) arrival cds with on reverse completed Reply dated 9 Nov 1944 & with another Eritrea lozenge censor, Red Cross transit cachets dated 26 Dec 1944 & violet unframed 8 Feb 1945 arrival….. Message forms to/from East Africa are seldom encountered especially with Replies showing full transit times of almost 10 months. CCSG IX is only recorded for 6 month period & only on Red Cross forms from 27 Jul ’44 to 11 Jan ’45