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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2068

Prisoner or War Mail
Hong Kong
P.O.W. Mail - Camp 'S', Shamshuipo (Other Ranks)
1942 (22 Aug.) ambulance envelope from Edwin Soden to his wife in Australia. The envelope with "service des prisonniers de guerre" and sent registered to Bondi, marked "gone to England" and redirected to "Care Imperial Army Paymaster Canberra", a group of backstamps with Sydney (1.12.43), Bondai Beach (1.12) and Canberra (4.12) and manuscript "1st Letter Home. Note written 22 Aug 1942 Hong Kong". Also photocopies of the original letter and a letter from the War Office Welfare stating that Sgt. Soden of 1 Middx. Rgt. is posted as missing (as were all the army personnel serving in Hong Kong). Unusual. Tett fig. 4-3-8. Photo

Sold for
HK$2,200