USA. 1940-42 Covers from USA to France (8), Germany (3), Italy (3), Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, Holland, Bulgaria, French Sudan or Haiti all returned with various U.S or French Service Suspended cachets, four bearing "RETURNED / TO SENDER / BY CENSOR" labels, three with enclosed form or applied label OC-12 (returned letter to enemy or enemy occupied country, personal messages of 25 words may be sent through American Red Cross), two covers (one from Porto Rico) bearing form 862 "Returned by Censorship for disposition under Postal Laws and Regulations pertaining to dead letters and dead parcel post. Reason : No Return Address". A fine group, five covers censored by the British in Bermuda. (21). £300-350
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USA / New Caledonia. 1940 (May 17) Registered cover from Noumea, New Caledonia to New York, held in France during the war and delivered in 1945 with May arrival backstamps, bearing the explanatory label "POST OFFICE, NEW YORK 1, N.Y / This article was held in France during the German / Occupation and has now been released by the French / authorities. / ALBERT GOLDMAN, Postmaster", very scarce, the first example we have seen. Photo on Page 80. £140-160
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USA. 1941-42 Covers from USA to Japan (2), Philippines (4), Dutch East Indies (3), Korea or Malaya, and a cover from the Philippines to Belgium, all returned with Service Suspended cachets, mainly applied in the USA but two covers to Java or East Borneo with cachets applied in India or Batavia, one cover to a former news correspondent in Japan with unusual "RETURN TO SENDER / BY DIRECTION I.C.B" applied by the Internal Censorship Branch. (12). Photo on Page 80. £300-350
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Venezuela / Nicaragua. 1939-43 Covers from Venezuela to Germany (2), occupied France or Switzerland, or from Nicaragua to occupied France, various Service Suspended cachets including "RETOUR A L'ENVOYEUR / CORRESPONDANCE INADMISE / POUR LA ZONE OCCUPEE" and "Refoule par bureau postal Lyon gare / faute de communications avec France Occupee / Postes Bale 2", one 1939 cover to Germany censored in France and handstamped "RETOUR / A L'ENVOYEUR" with the address crossed out but then somehow delivered, a large label applied in Germany, "The attached letter is to be handed to the addressee. The striking out of the address was carried out incorrectly by an enemy power". (5). £150-180
Undeliverable & Redirected Mail |
1940-45 Covers including cover from G.B to Canada with unusual "CONTRARY TO REGULATIONS F.B / CLOSED AGAINST INSPECTION / PLEASE SEE PAGE 81-86 / P.O GUIDE RE." label; 1944 cover from G.B to a Swedish merchant seaman with the cachet "Missing"; 1942 cover from G.B to a merchant seaman on S.S "Josafina Thornton" at New Zealand Ave., Walton-on-Thames, with a Curacao censor and "UNABLE TO EFFECT DELIVERY / TO BE RETURNED TO SENDER"; 1940 registered cover to Canada with oval ""EASTERN ARCTIC / MAIL / SERVICE / R.M.S Nascopie" arrival datestamps (July and Sept.), returned unclaimed; 1941 cover from G.B to Malaya, redirected to Australia and G.B; 1941 cover from USA to Iceland with boxed "Non reclame" and "REBUTS"; 1945 (Feb.) cover from Koniggratz to Prague endorsed "Recipient killed in air raid", etc. An interesting group, most well written up on pages. (17). £180-200
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1939-45 G.B. Covers and cards to soldiers in the British or Indian army all redirected or returned with various cachets or labels, including Returned to United Kingdom, Addressee Reported Prisoner of War, Addressee Deceased, Addressee Reported Missing, Evacuated, Not with Unit, No Record of Unit in B.L.A, No Trace, No location in S.E.A.C, Left Unit, Repatriated to U.K, etc. A fine lot, well written up on album pages. (52). £400-500
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Royal Navy. 1940-45 G.B. Covers to forces in the Royal Navy (14) or Royal Marines, all returned or redirected with various cachets, including Returned By Order of Admiralty in View of Time Elapsed Since Writing, Not Known in R.N Barracks Chatham, Redirected Letter H.M.S ....... c/o G.P.O London, Cannot Identify at Admiralty, No Trace in Frobisher Division, Returned Unclaimed in R.N Barracks Devonport, Unclaimed in R.N Barracks Portsmouth, No Trace at Fleet Mail Office, No Trace at H.M.S Lanka, Return to Sender Admiralty Instructions, etc., one cover to the British Fleet Mail Officer on H.M.C.S "Donnacona", all well written up on pages. (15). £130-160
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Royal Air Force. 1941-46 G.B. Covers and cards to forces in the R.A.F, all redirected or returned with various cachets or labels, including Not Known in Middle East Command, Addressee Returned to United Kingdom, Return To Sender on Air Ministry Instructions, Return To Sender A.M Instructions, Not India Command, R.A.A.F Base P.O Melbourne Unable to Trace as Addressed, Evacuated to UK, R.A.F Overseas, etc., three with "RECEIVED DAMAGED AT / R.A.F RECORD OFFICE", also a piece with a proof strike of "Mail Received Open / Damaged at the R.A.F Post Office at Sutton on Hull", most written up on pages. (23). £180-200
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Allied Forces. 1940-45 Covers and cards to Australian (5), U.S (10), Canadian (3) or French (3) forces, all undelivered or redirected with various cachets or labels. Included is a 1945 cover from Australia to "Father Bodger, Wedan Mission, New Guinea" with boxed "NOT WITH UNIT, Angau Lae", 1944 cover from Australian Army P.O 0132 (Milne Bay, New Guinea) to "Rev. Bartlett, Methodist Overseas Missions, c/o Angau, Milne Force" redirected to Australia, etc., most well written up on pages. (21). £160-200
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Germany/Italy. 1940-45 Covers and cards from or to German forces (30) or Italian forces (2), undelivered with various cachets including killed in action (7) or missing (2), incorrect address, awaiting new address, mail to units which had been destroyed in Russia, air service not available to unit, etc., also 1944 card from a Hungarian Waffen S.S Volunteer to another volunteer on the Russian front using the undercover address "Szabadka", most well written up on pages. (32). £250-300
P.O.W Mail |
1940-45 Covers and cards to or from German, Italian, British or French P.O.Ws, redirected or returned, including 1944 cover from Germany to a German P.O.W in USA with "DECEASED / Forward to I.R.C.C, Washington, D.C. / EPWIB-OPMG / Ft. George G. Meade, Md., U.S.A"; 1945 cover from Denmark to a German P.O.W in USA with boxed "Prisoner discharged / Return to Sender" and "NOT IN U.S.A / Forward to APO 887, New York, N.Y / EPWIB-OPMG / Ft. George G. Meade, Md., U.S.A"; 1945 cover from Germany to a P.O.W at Camp 17, Lodge Moor, Sheffield, with "ADDRESSEE / REPATRIATED / RETURN TO / SENDER", etc. (10). £120-140
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1943-45 Covers (2) and 2½d P.O.W lettersheets (4) from G.B. to P.O.Ws in Italy (3), Germany (2) or Laghouat, Algeria, all undelivered and returned. Cachets include "REPATRIATED", boxed "This letter has been returned by the Swiss Post Office .....", "This letter formed part of Undelivered Mails which fell into the hands of the Allied Forces in Germany ....." or similar unboxed cachet "..... hands of the Allied Forces advancing in Italy ....."; and 1945 postcard (faults) and lettersheet from P.O.Ws in Germany with "RECOVERED P.O.W MAIL / FROM EUROPE / RECENTLY RECEIVED / BY BRITISH P.O" or boxed "RETURNED FROM / CONTINENT IN / UNDELIVERED MAILS". (8). £120-140
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New Zealand. 1945 New Zealand 6d on 1/- P.O.W air letter sheet to a P.O.W in Germany, redirected back to New Zealand, handstamped violet "RECOVERED BY ALLIED FORCES", with "NEW ZEALAND ARMY BASE P.O - U.K" backstamp applied in London. Photo on Page 80. £100-120
P.O.W & Internee Mail - Japanese Camps |
1943 (Jan 1) Stampless Red Cross cover from Geneva to "M. Abert Richard, Representant de Ford, Kobe, Japan" with a Japanese censor seal tied by a Japanese c.d.s, a redirection slip with boxed handstamps and a Kobe c.d.s applied, both sides handstamped red "INSUFFICIENT ADDRESS", "RETOUR" and boxed "INCONNU", very unusual. Photo on Page 84. £100-120
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1942-44 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" endorsed "Recd 7.7.45" and "Zentsuji"; 1943 cover from G.B to a P.O.W in Malaya endorsed "Dead"; and 1944 Osaka P.O.W Camp printed envelope (with enclosed letter) to England, apparently found in Japan after the war with violet boxed "RETURNED IN / UNDELIVERED / MAILS FROM JAPAN", an unusual trio. (3). £180-200
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1943-45 Stampless covers (2) and a postcard, and 1½d P.O.W air mail postcards (2), all from G.B to British P.O.Ws but returned with various cachets, comprising 1943 cover to "Sgt. Gothard believed captured at Singapore, c/o Japanese Red Cross" with boxed "RETURNED IN / UNDELIVERED / MAILS FROM JAPAN" (Sgt Gothard actually killed at the final Battle for Singapore); 1945 cover to Osako Camp with "RETURNED FROM ABROAD / REPATRIATED"; 1944 card to No. 1 P.O.W Camp Thailand with "Addressee Reported / NOT NOW / Prisoner of War"; 1945 1½d postcard to a civilian internee at Syme Rd Camp, Singapore, with "RETURNED FROM ABROAD / SERVICE SUSPENDED"; and 1½d postcard to No. 4 P.O.W Camp, Thailand with boxed "RETURNED IN UNDELIVERED MAILS / FROM TERRITORY FORMERLY OCCUPIED / BY JAPANESE FORCES". A good group. (5). £280-320
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1945 1½d G.B. Forces air letters (3) and a cover to liberated P.O.Ws, the cover to a female civilian formerly held in the Philippines, addressed "c/o American Red Cross, APO 442, P.M San Francisco" with "RETURN TO SENDER / RETURNING TO UNITED STATES / LEFT NO FORWARDING ADDRESS", air letters addressed to "P.O Box 164 London E.C.1", or to "Australian Base P.O Melbourne" (2) both returned with violet "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. (5). £160-180
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1944-45 Stampless cards, covers or P.O.W lettersheets from the USA (4) or Canada all to U.S prisoners in Japan, all returned with explanatory cachets, two received in Japan with Japanese censor cachets or endorsements, comprising Canadian P.O.W cover to Osaka with "RETURNED FROM ABROAD / SERVICE SUSPENDED" and "RETURN / TO / SENDER", Ottawa Dead Letter Office machine on reverse; 1944 postcard to the Commander of S.S "President Harrison" at Zentsuji with Japanese censor cachets, red "RETURN TO WRITER / SEARCHED AT / U.S FLEET RECORDS OFFICE / FORWARDING ADDRESS UNAVAILABLE / RETURNED FOR BETTER ADDRESS" and a label "Liberated"; P.O.W lettersheet to Osaka with Japanese censor and "RETURNED TO SENDER / UNDELIVERABLE AS ADDRESSED"; P.O.W lettersheet to Osaka with "RETURN TO WRITER / NO FORWARDING ADDRESS"; and P.O.W postcard to Tokyo with "RETURNED TO SENDER / By Direction of The War Department / Undeliverable as Addressed". Also a yellow P.O.W card from an American P.O.W in Philippine Military Prison Camp No. 4, redirected in the USA with Washington D.C P.O cachet (heavy vertical fold). (6). Photo on Page 80. £280-320
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1942-44 P.O.W Postcards (3), cover (letter enclosed) and a Red Cross lettersheet all from Dutch prisoners, all undelivered and returned, or redirected, comprising postcards from Fukuoka to "Dutch Headquarters, Melbourne Australia" redirected to the Netherlands Embassy in Washington, No 6. P.O.W Camp Thailand to Java but not known and returned to Thailand, or Fukuoka to Java handstamped "NO RECORD"; P.O.W envelope from Zentsuji to Java with Japanese c.d.s. and "NO RECORD" cachet; and a Red Cross lettersheet from an internee in Batavia to his wife at Lawang with boxed "TERUG AFZENDER / RETOUR a L'EXPEDITEUR" and label "Retour Roode Kruis". A very unusual group, showing undelivered mail returned to P.O.Ws. (5). Photo on Page 84. £250-300
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c.1944 P.O.W Card from a Dutch soldier held prisoner in Sumatra to his wife in Java, handstamped boxed "NO RECORD / IN JAVA / P.O.W & INTERNMENT CAMPS", very scarce and unusual. Photo on Page 84. £150-200
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1942-44 Netherlands Indies 3½c postcards sent to or from civilian internees in Java, all unknown and returned to the senders with various cachets, comprising cards from internees at Boeboetan, Ambarawa or Tawanan, and a card to Tjimahi Camp handstamped "NIET IN B" and "IV Concentratiekamp / NBEKEND", an unusual group. (4). Photo on Page 84. £240-280
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1943-44 Netherlands Indies postcards to or from Dutch prisoners, comprising a plain postcard franked 4c from Bogor to a P.O.W at Tjimahi, and a 3½c postal stationery postcard sent by a prisoner in Bandoeng to his wife interned in another camp in Bandoeng, both returned with different explanatory labels ("Ordinary postcards not allowed to P.O.W within Java", or "Address must be written as instructed on top of postcard"), the stationery card also with scarce "Rejected" cachet. (2). Photo on Page 84. £180-220
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1943-45 Cards and an airletter to or from L/Cpl J. Rackham comprising stampless cards from G.B to Rackham as a P.O.W in Singapore (3) and a 3d P.O.W postcard to No 2 P.O.W Camp Thailand, all with Japanese censor cachets, and a 1945 (Sep 8) air letter from Rackham at "Recovered P.W Mail Centre Bombay" endorsed "EX P.O.W Mail" with Indian F.P.O 595 c.d.s. Also two differing Red Cross cards given to liberated P.O.Ws, and three related letters from the Ministry of Pensions. (7+). £100-120
China - P.O.W & Internee Mail |
1942-46 Red Cross message forms sent from Arthur Fischer in Ward Road, Shanghai, to Mario Wolf in Vienna (2), and the reply portions of lettersheets from Vienna sent back to Fischer in Shanghai (3), all with oval "COMITE INTERNATIONAL / SHANGHAI / CROIX ROUGE", other cachets include "Far Eastern Jewish Central / Information Bureau for Emigrants / "DALJEWCIE-HICEM", SHANGHAI", one reply message not received until January 1947. Fischer writes in German but indicates he has no nationality, his German nationality presumably being withdrawn by the Nazis because he was Jewish; there was an Internment Camp in Ward Road, though it is unclear whether he was an internee in that camp. An interesting correspondence. (5). £300-400
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1944 Registered cover with printed heading "INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS COMMITTEE, GENEVA / DELEGATION IN THE FAR EAST / VICTORY HOUSE / CHUNGKING", handstamped "PRISONER OF WAR SERVICE", registered from Chungking to the Red Cross Delegate in Shanghai franked 11c, arrival c.d.s, registration label on reverse. Also a British Residents Association of China membership card for 1941. (2). £80-100
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1941-45 Covers and a card comprising 1941 covers from U.S.A to Eugene De Turck, Radio Operator on the U.S Ship "Vincent", posted in August endorsed "Not on Board Chant" and "Perida" and returned, or December 1st to the S.S "Vincent" endorsed "This ship greatly overdue, regret presumed lost" (stamps cut out); 1945 (Aug) stampless P.O.W lettersheet from the USA to De Turck held by the Japanese at Shanghai, with "RETURN TO SENDER / UNDELIVERABLE AS / ADDRESSED"; and an unusual preprinted International Red Cross Committee P.O.W cover, also intended to be used for returning a reply, sent to De Turck at Woosung, with a Japanese censor cachet, received November 1942. The S.S "Vincent" was sunk by two Japanese cruisers on December 12th 1941 near Pitcairn Island. (4). Photo on Page 84. £180-220
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1942-44 6c Air Mail postal stationery envelope (with long enclosed letter) from Ohio to "Sgt. G.A de Tallentire, U.S Marine Corps, formerly of Wake Island, interned near Shanghai", and a stampless cover to J.V Castleton U.S.N, Shanghai War Prisoner Camp, both with Japanese censor cachets. (2). £100-120
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1942-44 Stampless covers from USA to Chalas Loveland, an American civilian internee in Shanghai, addressed to Woosung War Prisoners Camp, Kiang Wan War Prisoners Camp, or "Field Post Office, Box 106, China", all with Japanese censor cachets, one censored in Germany. (3). £120-150
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1945 Long stampless cover endorsed "Internee Mail", from a British internee at Lincoln Avenue Civil Assembly Centre to another internee at Camp "C", Yangchow Civil Assembly Centre, with violet boxed "Internee mail free / of postage / Shanghai P.O" and a Shanghai backstamp. £80-100
Mail from or to Japanese P.O.Ws |
Batavia. 1945 Stampless postcard from a Japanese soldier in Tjipinang Prison to his wife in Japan, the address and senders return address written in both Japanese and English, the message in Japanese, with U.S "C.C.D - 3365" censor cachet, horizontal fold, otherwise fine and unusual. £100-120
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Philippines. 1945 Covers (3) and a postcard from Japan to P.O.Ws in the Philippines, all differing frankings to make the 10s letter rate or 5s postcard rate, all with U.S "C.C.D" censor cachets, one also with an "Opened By U.S Army Examiner" censor label, unusual. (4). £200-240
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Philippines. 1945 Covers from Japan to P.O.Ws in the Philippines, all franked 10s, all with U.S "C.C.D" censor cachets, one also with an "Opened By U.S Army Examiner" censor label, unusual. £180-220
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New Guinea. 1946 Stampless military postcard from a P.O.W in Rabaul, addressed to Japan, endorsed "Disarmed Japanese Personnel", military chop handstamps, very unusual and scarce. Photo on Page 84 £200-240
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New Guinea. 1946 Stampless "White Dove & Helmet" soldiers postcard from a P.O.W in Rabaul, addressed to Japan, endorsed "Disarmed Japanese Personnel", military chop handstamps and boxed "RELEASED BY / CENSORSHIP", vertical and horizontal folds but very unusual and scarce. Photo on Page 88. £150-180
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Russia. 1947-48 Russian P.O.W cards, two written by Japanese P.O.Ws to Tokyo both with Vladivostock datestamps, the other a reply card from Gifu to a P.O.W in Khabarovsk, all with Russian censor cachets, one also with a U.S "C.C.D.J - 5898" censor cachet, very unusual. (3). £250-300
Damaged, Interrupted & Delayed Mail |
1940-44 Covers all damaged in transit including 1944 V-Mail lettersheet handstamped "NOT SUITABLE / FOR FILMING" and "THIS V MAIL COULD NOT BE PHOTOGRAPHED / WET WHEN RECEIVED"; 1944 (May 26) cover from Ceylon to G.B endorsed "Found among ........ letters" with "Delivered on / 14th Apl, 1944" cachet"; 1944 cover from Lisbon to New York censored in Bermuda, signs of scorching with four stamps washed off, handstamped "Received in Wet Condition / New York P.O", etc. (10). £100-120
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USA. 1943 (Aug 24) Stampless cover with U.S Navy datestamp and violet "DAMAGED BY SEA WATER / AT SAN PEDRO, CALIF."; 1944 cover from Cleveland to U.S.S "Monticello", the stamp washed off, with violet "THIS MAIL DAMAGED DUE TO / CONDITIONS BEYOND CONTROL" and U.S Navy backstamp; and 1945 cover from La Grange to Harrisburg, the stamp washed off, handstamped "DAMAGED BY FLOOD". (3). £140-160
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Sierra Leone / G.B. 1943 (Jan 5) Air letter from Norfolk to No. 3 Transit Camp W.A.F, franked 6d, handstamped "NO AIRMAIL SERVICE AVAILABLE", fire damaged with a violet "DAMAGED BY FIRE" cachet, enclosed within a Post Office ambulance envelope with violet "HOME POSTAL CENTRE R.E / A.P.O" c.d.s (March 1, this format of rubber c.d.s not recorded by Proud), inscribed "Recd at Freetown S. Leone 25/3/43". An unusual item, probably damaged in the U.K. £100-120
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1945 (Sep 6) Covers from G.B to British forces in Germany both handstamped "DAMAGED BY FIRE" (2); also c.1947 cover to Nottingham with "HQ BTE, MELF 14" (Moascar) return address franked 2½d, handstamped "ACCIDENTAL DAMAGE". (3). £100-120
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Belgium. 1945 G.B 2d Postcard from London (Feb 7) to Ghent with Brussels arrival c.d.s (Feb 20), and an air mail cover from Lulubourg, Belgian Congo, to Viveguis Les Liege, both with the same Brussels datestamp (Feb 22) and boxed "PARVENU ENDOMMAGE / BESCHADIGD TOEGEKOMEN". Probably both from the same war related incident in Belgium, although Nierinck records several damaged January 1945 covers from Belgian Congo to Belgium, which he surmised were possibly recovered from a shot down aircraft. (2). £100-120
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Delayed Mail. 1940-44 Covers all delayed in transit including V-Mail form handstamped "March 10 1943 / V-Mail Delayed / Being Investigated", 1940 (June) cover from Holland to Java delivered seven months later, 1941 (Nov.) cover from Philippines to USA delivered three months later, 1943 cover from Austria to Argentina with enclosed German censor slip "name and address of sender and recipient required on each page", etc. (10). £120-150
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Delayed Mail - Papua / China. 1941 (June 17) Registered cover from Port Moresby (but with a N.S.W return address) to Shanghai franked 1/-, censored in Australia, backstamped at Brisbane and Shanghai (26 Feb. & 2 Apr 1942), handstamped "RETOUR / RETURN" and "Inconnu / Unknown" and returned to Australia. Detained until 1946 with light "THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN HELD BY / POST & TELEGRAPH CENSORSHIP" and boxed "PASCHOR" cachets, backstamped at Melbourne (11 Jan & 25 Apr 1946), Sydney (12 Jan & 26 Apr) and Dead Letter Office Sydney (Apr 26), very unusual. £120-150
G.B - Damaged by Enemy Action |
1940 (Oct 19) Cover from London W1 to London SE27 with 1d Paid machine, and violet "DELAYED BY / ENEMY ACTION", also 1940 (Dec 19) cover with "London S.W Tempy Office" machine. A scarce 'Delayed' cachet, posted in London during the Blitz. Photo on Page 88. £140-160
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1941 (Feb 13) Air Mail cover from Egypt to England with G.B 10d cancelled "EGYPT / 14 / POSTAGE / PREPAID" c.d.s, a little stained at lower edge, probably damaged after receipt in England, handstamped red "DAMAGED AS A RESULT / OF ENEMY ACTION". £120-140
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1941 Cover from Devon to London E.C.2 with violet cachet "Moorgate Post Office / has Re-opened at / 33, Eldon St., E.C.2", used after the Post Office was destroyed in the Blitz. Also a 1940 O.H.M.S card concerning war damage to a property in London. (2). Photo on Page 88. £120-140
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1941-44 Covers posted within the U.K comprising 1941 torn and soiled cover from London bearing label "Postmaster regrets this packet has been accidentally damaged" with manuscript "R.L.S, L.P.R 13.9.41"; 1942 (Dec 30) cover from Harrogate to Alton, water damaged and the stamp washed off, repaired with a label endorsed "Damaged by water" and bearing a Woking (Jan 1) c.d.s; and 1944 (Aug 24) window envelope from Reading, stained, with enclosed explanatory slip "8 Nov 1944, Reading, Berks, I regret to inform you that the enclosed letter has been damaged through immersion in water and delayed in the post. Head Postmaster". (3). £150-180
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c.1941 and 1942 Covers from India to England, both waterstained with the stamps washed off, probably damaged after arriving in England, handstamped violet "DAMAGED AS A RESULT / OF ENEMY ACTION" or "DAMAGED BY / ENEMY ACTION". (2). £140-160
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1942 (May 22) Cover from Weymouth to a naval officer at H.M.M.S 1087 c/o G.P.O London, returned to the sender in Weymouth, water damaged and a little singed with the stamp soaked off, backstamped "DAMAGED BY ENEMY ACTION" and the very scarce "DELAYED BY / ENEMY ACTION" with a Bomb. A scarce genuine example of the "Bomb" cachet (most examples being forged) and very unusual in combination with the second cachet. Photo on Page 88. £250-300
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1943 (Apr 11) Cover from Cape Town to Wales damaged by water and singeing, probably after arriving in G.B, the stamp washed off, backstamped "DAMAGED AS A RESULT / OF ENEMY ACTION". £80-100
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1942 (Dec 17) Cover from Harwich to H.M.S "Fortune" c/o G.P.O but marked "leave" and returned, trace of fire damage at left edge, backstamped "DAMAGED BY ENEMY ACTION"; and a 1943 (July 16) registered Post Office ambulance envelope originally enclosing a letter from Ludgershall to H.M.S "Cheshire", handstamped "DAMAGED AS A RESULT / OF ENEMY ACTION", redirected to Devonport, H.M.S "Mersey" and H.M.S "President V", backstamped "MAIL OFFICE / 26 JUL Recd / H.M.S MERSEY". (2). £150-180
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