japanese p.o.w camps - Stamp Auctions
Lot 697 - japanese p.o.w camps - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryThailand. 1943-44 Correspondence to or from Signalman H. Roberts comprising P.O.W postcard from No. 1 Camp, stampless postcards (10) and G.B 3d postal stationery postcards (4) all to Roberts in No. 1 or No. 2 camps, all censored, and a 11⁄2d postal stationery postcard returned handstamped "RETURNED FROM ABROAD / SERVICE SUSPENDED". (15). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyjapanese p.o.w camps |
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Lot 692 - japanese p.o.w camps - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryTaiwan. 1943-44 P.O.W Postcard from Gunner F. Foster, and cards from G.B to Foster in Taiwan (5), all censored, also a 1945 card from South Africa reporting a radio message heard on August 11th from Foster, on Tokio radio. (7). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyjapanese p.o.w camps |
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 Lot 687 - japanese p.o.w camps - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryChina/Hong Kong. 1941-44 Covers and cards comprising 1941-42 covers from G.B to a soldier in Hong Kong returned marked "No Service" or "Addressee Missing"; censored cover from a British female civilian interned at Weihsien to a German lady at Tientsin franked 20c; 1943 Australian Red Cross cover to a civilian internee at Camp Stanley, Hong Kong; China 2c postcard from a female internee at the Military Internment Camp Stanley to her son, a P.O.W at Camp "N", Hong Kong; Military Internment Camp Hong Kong postcard from a female internee at Stanley; 1943 Red Cross message form to a female internee at Lunghwa Hospital, Shanghai; unused Hong Kong type 3 P.O.W postcard and China 2c postcard with boxed P.O.W handstamp as used from Stanley Internment Camp. A fine lot, all used items censored. (9). Photo on Page 107. Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyjapanese p.o.w camps |
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Lot 698 - japanese p.o.w camps - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryThailand. Type 2 or 3 P.O.W cards from Driver J.J Matthews in No. 4 Camp, and two G.B 3d postal stationery postcards to Matthews both returned with boxed "RETURNED IN UNDELIVERED MAILS / FROM TERRITORY FORMERLY OCCUPIED / BY JAPANESE FORCES". (4). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyjapanese p.o.w camps |
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 Lot 693 - japanese p.o.w camps - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryTaiwan/Malaya. 1942-45 Correspondence to or from Signalman D.L May comprising P.O.W cards sent from Malaya or Taiwan (5, one censored in Germany), stampless covers and cards (59) or 3d P.O.W postal stationery cards (4) addressed to May at A.P.O 1635 Singapore (8) or Taiwan (55); 1945 USA 6d Air Mail stationery envelope from May to ‘H.Q.3 Australian P.W Reception Group’; and various letters (6) sent to his family with instructions on sending letters to P.O.Ws, etc. A fine lot, virtually all with Japanese censors. (76). Photo on Page 112. Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyjapanese p.o.w camps |
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 Lot 688 - japanese p.o.w camps - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryManchuria/Korea. 1942 Cover to "Sgt. D.P Hanson R.A.O.C A.P.O 1515, British P.O.W, last heard of Singapore" marked "CHO" and OVS "16/8/42", and a card from Hanson sent from Mukden, Manchoukuo. Also a China 1c postcard from a British female interned at Foochow to Hanson at the P.O.W Camp at Keijo, Chosen, Korea, a stamp unfortunately torn out of the card, all three with Japanese censors. Scarce. (3). Photo on Page 112. Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyjapanese p.o.w camps |
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 Lot 699 - japanese p.o.w camps - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryBurma/Thailand. 1942-45 Correspondence from or to L/Bdr A.W.F Grafton comprising P.O.W postcards from Moulmein, Burma or No. 3 Branch Camp at Nike, Thailand, both with largely printed messages; 1944 censored stampless card from London to Grafton at Moulmein; also 1942 cover to him at A.P.O 1310 but returned to the sender, and 1945 cover to P.O. Box 164, London E.C.1, also returned with the cachet "IT IS REGRETTED THIS LETTER COULD / NOT BE FORWARDED IN TIME TO CONNECT / WITH THE SHIP OR AIRCRAFT ON WHICH / ADDRESSEE WAS REPATRIATED". A scarce lot, very few P.O.W cards recorded from Burma. (5). Photo on Page 112. Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyjapanese p.o.w camps |
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Lot 694 - japanese p.o.w camps - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryThailand/Malaya. 1942-45 Correspondence to or from Lt. G.R Grigs with 1942 cover to him at A.P.O 1635 returned with "Air Mail fee 2s 41⁄2d / refunded"; P.O.W cards sent from Malaya or No. 1 Camp, Thailand (3); 1945 (Aug 30) stampless entire letter written from the camp after liberation endorsed "P.O.W First Air Mail"; 1945 telegram (with copy telegram and covering letter) from "Recovered PW mail centre Bombay"; and three related War Office letters. (8+). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyjapanese p.o.w camps |
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Lot 689 - japanese p.o.w camps - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryJapan/Taiwan. 1943-44 Stampless covers from G.B to Pte. Tucker R.A.S.C at Hong Kong (endorsed "OSA") or Osaka, or to Pte Cope R.A.S.C at Java (endorsed "OSAKA") or Osaka; P.O.W cards from Sgt. F. Frost at Fukuoka (2); P.O.W cards from Hakodate (2); P.O.W envelope from Osaka; 1944 cover to a P.O.W at Taiwan returned by the British Censor with enclosed slip "Greetings card not allowed" and the card (all torn in two and repaired); and a card from USA passing on a radiogram message received from Hakodate. (11). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyjapanese p.o.w camps |
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Lot 700 - japanese p.o.w camps - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryThailand/Malaya. 1943-44 P.O.W postcards from Lt. G. Willsdon in Malaya or No. 2 Camp, Thailand, together with 1941 front and 1945 cover to Willsdon, both returned with cachets "Addressee / Reported Missing" or "IT IS REGRETTED THIS LETTER COULD / NOT BE FORWARDED IN TIME TO CONNECT / WITH THE SHIP OR AIRCRAFT ON WHICH / ADDRESSEE WAS REPATRIATED"; P.O.W postcard from Corp. A.J.S Holman at Sanatorium Camp, Thailand, and a cover to Holman at No. 2 Camp; G.B 3d postal stationery postcard and a stampless cover both to Sgt. J.P Howard at No. 2 Camp Thailand. (8). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyjapanese p.o.w camps |
