P.O.W Mail - Japanese Camps. 1942-45 Covers comprising 1942 ...

Hammer

£440

P.O.W Mail - Japanese Camps. 1942-45 Covers comprising 1942 cover posted within India, redirected to Lieut. P. Cranshaw at "British Prisoner of War, c/o P.O.W Information Bureau, Tokyo"; 1943 cover from G.B to a P.O.W in Malaya, endorsed "Dead"; 1944 Osaka P.O.W Camp printed envelope to G.B with violet boxed "RETURNED IN / UNDELIVERED / MAILS FROM JAPAN"; and 1945 1½d air letters from G.B. to liberated P.O.Ws at "P.O Box 164, London E.C.1" or "Australian Base P.O, Melbourne" (2), these last two both returned with "NO RECORD OF REPATRIATION OF ADDRESSEE" or "IT IS REGRETTED THIS LETTER COULD / NOT BE FORWARDED IN TIME TO CONNECT / WITH THE SHIP OR AIRCRAFT ON WHICH / ADDRESSEE WAS REPATRIATED". Also a War Office letter advising of the release of Pte. E. Green, formerly held P.O.W by the Japanese. (7).