Boadicea. 1936 (Sep 23) Cover from Wales to Australia, water...

Hammer

£180

Boadicea. 1936 (Sep 23) Cover from Wales to Australia, water damaged and the stamps washed off, forwarded within an O.H.M.S "Returned Letter Section, Mount Pleasant, London E.C1" ambulance envelope, with the enclosed explanatory slip "The accompanying packet which was / washed ashore on the coast of England / was apparently conveyed by the Imperial / Airways Airplane "Boadicea" which left / Croydon on the 25th September and failed / to arrive at Paris. / The inconvenience occasioned is / regretted. / Returned Letter Section / Mount Pleasant / London, E.C.1", arrival backstamp of Fivedock, N.S.W (Nov 27). From the second mailbag to be recovered, found on the beach at Dymchurch on November 10th. N.360925d.