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Auction: 25020 - The Tom Gosse Collection of the Japanese Occupation of South-East Asia
Lot: 220

(x) Burma
Prisoner of War Mail
Undated "service des prisoniers de guerre" card (soiled) from Gunner I. Rivers, a British soldier at Moulmein camp to England showing despatch and arrival censor marks; another undated "service des prisoniers de guerre" card (badly soiled and with heavy central vertical fold) from Sergeant Harold Pearce, a British soldier at Moulmein camp, showing despatch and arrival censor marks and unframed "damaged by/fire in transit" h.s. in violet; 1943 (Feb.) Red Cross "prisoners of War Post" envelope from Gunner D.F. Bertram of the Australian army, showing despatch and arrival censor marks; also 1942 (4 Aug.) envelope from Chittagong to an Indian internee in Rangoon via Tokyo, marked "Prisoner of War Post" and showing sealing tape at left tied by censor mark. A good group

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Estimate
£300 to £400

Starting price
£210