Ended on Monday, 19 February 2018 at 01:30.

GA Birma / Burma / Myanmar: 1945. Registered Air Mail Indian postal stationery envelope 'three annas po

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Start of the sale:
Monday, 22 January 2018 at 08:07
Item n°513880149
Sale ends:
Monday, 19 February 2018 at 01:30
Lot:
#05122
Catalogue:
39. Auction - 19 Feb. 2018 - Philately: Asia incl. Malaya Special

1945. Registered Air Mail Indian postal stationery envelope 'three annas postage one anna and a half' blue ancelled by 'F.P.O. No 70' date stamp '30th April 45' with matching Provisional label, addressed to London with circular 'Unit Censor/F 87' on face. Scarce Field Post Office from Meiktila in Burma, written by a liberated P.O.W. from the Japanese Occupation of Siam and Burma. A rare item. [FIELD POST OFFICE No. 70 raised at Secunderabad, India in April 1942 . Assigned to the 19th Infantry Division. Service inn Burma began at Tamu in November 1944. Set up at Thaungdet (December 1944 ), Onbauk (January 1945), Kyaukmyaung (February 1945) and Meiktila (April 1945). F.P.O. then moved south to Toungoo at end of April during final advance on Rangoon. Letter handled in penultimate days of its operations at Meiktila. Very unusual use of a pre-war India Posts registered envelope from Meiktila. Service letters normally written on pre-printed air mail letter cards , carried free of charge by air. Use of this envelope indicates writer newly liberated from Japanese occupation (no rank, name or service number on cover). F.P.O. was only means of getting letter out of country . Letter was still subject to military censor.]

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GA Birma / Burma / Myanmar: 1945. Registered Air Mail Indian postal stationery envelope 'three annas po

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