£220
WWII MAILS TO & FROM POWs INC. SERVICE SUSPENDED: 1941-45 collection inc. 1943 "Posta di prisoniero" letter form from an Australian POW in Italian Concentration camp to his mother in Brisbane franked 2.75 lire for the Airmail rate via Rome, Lisbon and New York; 1941 env. Airmail Katapahar, Bengal to New York from a lady internee with censor tape tied by lilac boxed CENSORED BY THE / SUPERVISING OFFICER/ PAROLE SETTLEMENT hs; 1944 folded letter sheet Kenya to Porto Empedocle, Sardinia with lilac EVACUEES MAIL / POSTAGE FREE hs and on the reverse a superb lilac ITALIAN EVACUEE CAMP N1B / KENYA COLONY hs, etc.; 1945 POW PC Airmail Selly Oak to Y Camp Java with lilac RETURNED FROM ABROAD / SERVICE SUSPENDED hs; 1944 env. Germany to Internment Camp, Kingston Jamaica with Examiners tape and purple "Mit Luftpost / nach / Nord Amerika" hs, etc.; 1943 POW letter form Zagreb to Feldpost Nr.1 104C to a Croatian working in the north Norway Polar railway with Croatian Red Cross hs, etc.; 1943 env. Airmail Durban to Chosen, Korea to a Lt Denne British POW with South African censor tape, Japanese Red Cross cachet, Japanese censor "chops", etc.; 1943 env. County Durham to POW Java Camps endorsed Prisoner of War Post with Examiner tape and Japanese receiving hs, etc. Fine variety of mails. (25 items) Cross Reference: AUSTRALIA, ITALY, JAMAICA, INDIA
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