£150
CRETE - BRITISH PRISONER OF WAR MAIL: 1941-42 quartet inc. 8 Apr. 1941 env. Coventry to GHQ 2nd Echelon, c/o APO 725 with red ms CRETE and boxed purple RTS hs and below a fine purple Addressee Reported / Prisoner of War. hs; Feb. 1942 POW airmail letter sheet from Mrs Brown Cheltenham to Cpl Brown POW 5023, POW Camp Crete with fine Stalag VIIIB / Gepruft Nr 20a hs and boxed purple THIS LETTER HAS BEEN RETURNED BY THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS ... etc hs. By this date Cpl Brown had escaped and had been picked up by a British patrol boat to resume his war! plus May 1941 2d PC Reading to Cpl Bowden c/o Army PO with boxed purple RTS hs and alongside a fine purple Addressee Reported / Prisoner of War. hs with a 4 Feb. 1942 POW lettercard from Bowden, who had been transferred from Crete, at Stammlager XVIII D Maribor, Austria to his home in Reading. [Ex Gavin Fryer] (4 items) Cross Reference: CRETE, GREECE, MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL
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