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British Postal History – Military

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Military Postmarks and Covers (see also Aviation and Maritime pages)

Date	Description	Postmark	Cover		Price
16 Sep 1967	Royal School of Military Engineering – Chatham	Pictorial	PPC	A	£1.50
3 Apr 1971	1^st RAF Rocket Mail at Cosford – Midland Rocket Assn. on Special Cosford envelope.	Pictorial	SPE	A	£1.75
7 Apr 1971	Formation of 28 Amph. Engineer Regt. BFPO 31 BFPS No. 1143 frank. (Env. No. 1385)	Pictorial	SPE	B	£2.95
16 Apr 1971	225^th Anniv. Of battle of Culloden – BFPS No. 1229	Pictorial	SPE	B	£0.95
13 Sep 1972	75^th Anniv. Of Adoption of Wireless in British Army BFPS 1326 – Royal Engineers Series No.4	Pictorial	SPE	C	£1.75
28 May 1973	Royal British Legion Conference – Torquay	Pictorial	SPE	B	£1.25
30 May 1973	Blues & Royals – Presentation of Standards – BFPS No. 1406 -	Pictorial	SPE	B	£0.95
5 Mar 1986	50^th Anniv. of Spitfire H/s on Faga Spritfire Postcard No.377	Pictorial	PPC	A	£1.25

Camp and Barracks Postmarks

Postmark	Description		Cover Type		Price
Catterick Camp	Machine cancel on QE2 letter card.	1957	PSL	A	£1.25
Curragh Camp	Single circle	1907	ENV	A	£2.95
Curragh Camp	Double circle – twin arcs	1905	PPC	A	£4.75
Dibgate Camp / Shorncliffe	Double circle – thick arcs	1917	PPC	A	£2.75
Lark Hill Camp / Salisbury	Double circle – thick arcs – matching cancels on Set of 3 postcards of “Military Miss”	1918	PPCs	A	£14.50
Maresfield Park Camp / Uckfield	Double circle – thick arcs – (only about 50% of cancel showing)	1918	PPC	A	£2.50
Shorncliffe Camp	Double circle – thick arcs	1911	PPC	A	£5.95
St Eval RAF Station Wadebridge / C.WALL – on World Cup FDC	Double circle – no arcs	1966	FDC	A	£3.25
Whittington Barracks / Lichfield	Single circle	1917	PPC	A	£4.95

Field Post Office Cancellations

FPO Number	Description		Cover Type		Price
2	With Hexagonal censor mark 2312	27 Oct 1916	PPC	A	£0.95
2	With oval censor mark 798	6 Jan 1917	PPC	A	£0.95
50	Italy – with black shield censor 496	9 Oct 1918	PPC	A	£0.75
66	Bangkok – FPO Double circle – thick arcs	1 Mar 1966	PPC	A	£1.95
91	Field Service Card set of 4 to same address dated 19^th, 23^rd Oct and 6^th and 8^th November	1917	FSCs	A	£8.50
95	With red rectangular censor mark	26 May 1918	PPC	B	£1.25
108	Field Service Card	4 Sep 1917	FSC	A	£2.50
108	Field Service Card	12 Jan 1918	FSC	A	£1.95
108	Field Service Card	18 Jan 1918	FSC	A	£2.50
111	Field Service Card	24 Oct 1918	FSC	A	£1.95
111	Field Service Card	14 Nov 1918	FSC	A	£1.95
112	Field Service Card	20 Mar 1918	FSC	A	£0.95
145	Postcard with red Censor mark1762	1 Apr 1918	PPC	A	£2.95
157	Voss postcard	10 Feb 1986	PPC	A	£0.60
164	Postcard of Roost-Warendin – type B	24 Oct 1918	PPC	A	£0.90
167	Field Service Card	29 Mar 1918	FSC	A	£1.95
186	Q5 – with purple rectangle censor 5651	30 Jan 1919
233	Inigo Jones FDC with 233 cancel – Fiji ?? – BFPS FDC envelope		SPE	B	£4.95
245	OHMS Registered letter with cachet “Battalion Orderly Room / 2^nd Bn / Queen’s Regt.”		ENV	B	£0.95
352	Krefeld, Germany to BFPO Ships	17 Oct 1984	PPC	A	£0.75
363	N. Ireland to Yorkshire ??	22 Jun 1943	ENV	A	£2.50
432	Germany	9 Jun 1982	PPC	A	£0.60
461	Netherlands	3 Aug 1976	PPC	A	£0.60
551	Egypt	28 Dec 1950	PPC	A	£0.75
583	Algiers – 5 BAPO	5 Apr 1943	PPC	A	£1.80
777	1^st Bn E Surrey Regt. Salonika, Greece ? – with Channel Isles Liberation 2½d stamp.	23 Aug 194?	ENV	A	£4.50
841	OHMS envelope with Encl. Letter. “Orderly Room / 2FD Sqn RE / 23 FD ENGr. RGT.”	23 Sep 1953 Late use	ENV	A	£1.95
841	OHMS label with “Signal Office / 2 Royal Anglian”	10 Sep 1974	ENV	A	£1.25
842	OAS envelope with shield “Passed by Censor”		ENV	A	£0.50
856	Machine / roller cancel with shield censor 33?2	28 Sep 1944	ENV	A	£2.95
899	OHMS letter with “Brit. Consulate General / Hannover” cachet		ENV	B	£0.95
949	Single circle FPO	23 Aug 1971	PPC	A	£0.95
969	Single circle F.P.O. (Canada)	6 Ju 1970	PPC	A	£2.25
993	Registered Envelope front (23p) with 3 cancels		PSE	B	£0.60
993	German postcard -	14 Aug 1969	PPC	A	£0.75
1002	Dibai card to Aden with FPO thin arc cancel PLUS Aden GPO thin arc cancel receiving mark.	16 Dec 1964	PPC	A	£6.95
1023	From 1 Armoured Field Ambulance – BFPO 30	22 Aug 1988	PPC	A	£0.60
1023	OHMS envelope with Gloucester School Honne cachet BFPO 30	3 May 1978	ENV	A	£0.75
A3	Amiens	19 Mar 1919	PPC	A	£1.75
A4	4^th Army HQ with purple rectangular censor mark	19 Jan 1919	PPC	A	£1.95
D8	With red rectangle censor mark 3771	5 Feb 1919	PPC	A	£5.95
D32	With red rectangle censor mark	20 Mar 1919	PPC	A	£5.95
D32	With red rectangle censor mark 3771 ?	18 Mar 1919	PPC	A	£5.95
D36	Meckenheim with rectangular censor mark 4842	9 Dec 1918	PPC	A	£1.25
H1	With Oval “Passed Field Censor 2039” Christmas Day	25 Dec 1916	PPC	A	£6.95
S15	With Hexagonal censor mark 1554	28 Sep 1916	PPC	A	£0.75
T19	With Hexagonal censor mark 784	16 Jan 1916	PPC	A	£0.75
3X	Canadian 3^rd Brigade at Givenchey, France	21 Oct 1915	SPE	A	£1.95

Army Post Office Cancellations

APO Number	Description		Cover Type		Price
2	With hexagonal censor 1583	21 Feb 1916	PPC	A	£0.95
2	Machine cancel wavy lines – With hexagon censor 1518	14 Sep 1916	PPC	A	£0.60
2	Machine cancel wavy lines – With hexagon censor 2358	30 Aug 1916	PPC	A	£0.60
870	Machine cancel – part only	20 Dec 1945	PPC	A	£0.60
L3	Genoa with red rect. Censor 5378	12 Mar 1918	PPC	A	£2.50
R62	2^nd W Riding Divisn. – with purple rect. Censor 4657	5 Jan 1919	PPC	A	£5.75
S1	France – with red oval censor mark 2164	1 Mar 1917	PPC	A	£0.75
S1	France – with red oval censor mark 2164	19 Mar 1917	PPC	A	£0.75
S1	France – with red oval censor mark	27 Feb 1917	PPC	A	£0.50
S4	Aachen – with faded censor	27 Jul 1919	PPC	A	£0.95
S12	Le Havre, France – With hexagon censor 1473	25 Sep 1916	PPC	A	£0.95
S12	Le Havre, France – With hexagon censor 1473	21 Aug 1916	PPC	A	£0.95
S23	France – with purple rect. Censor 6351	22 Oct 1918	PPC	A	£0.95
S50	From Cpl. Cripps – with purple rect. Censor 6011	14 Jun 1919	PPC	A	£0.75
S51	With red rect. Censor – 4144	6 Jul 1918	PPC	A	£0.75
S59	St. Valery on P/C with Fr.Soldier, Purple rect. Censor 4482	28 Jan 1919	PPC	A	£0.75
S68	With red rect. Censor – 1030	24 Feb 1918	PPC	A	£1.25
S100	Italy – with purple rect. Censor	5 Apr 1918	PPC	A	£2.50
S100	Jerusalem - with purple rect. Censor S250	18 Feb 1918	PPC	A	£2.50

Base Army Post Office Cancellations

BAPO Number	Description		Cover Type		Price
5	Algiers –	21 Jan 1943	PPC	A	£2.50
5	Constantine	29 Mar 1944	PPC	A	£1.75
K	Egypt – Kantana (3^rd Day of use) Large single circle – With triangle censor 3937	7 Apr 1918	PPC	A	£3.95
Z	Egypt – With octagonal censor 912	13 M 1918	PPC	A	£1.50

Forces Post Office Cancellations

Postmark	Description		Cover Type		Price
BFPO 28	OHMS cover with m/c cancel and “British Consulate General / Hannover” cachet		ENV	B	£0.75
BFPO 4 Berlin	Flown by Helicopter cachet on Berlin PC with BFPO Berlin 4 single circle	1 May 1987	PPC	A	£1.50
BFPO 4 Berlin	British Berlin Tattoo PC with BFPO Berlin single circle	6 May 1989	PPC	A	£1.25
MPO Cairo	MPO Cancel plus Crowned circle “Egypt Postage Prepaid / 19” with Brit.Forces in Egypt 1 piastre Red Letter Stamp cancelled by Lozange, on back.	15 Jan 1936	ENV	A	£27.50
Polish Forces P/76	Polish Paratroop postmark – on 2 imperf Free Poland stamps with KGVI 1d all cancelled.	8 May 1943	PC	A	£7.95
US Army Postal Service	APS 513 used on Reims postcard (marked free), shows senders details.	13 Jul 1945	ENV	B	£4.50
US Army Postal Service	APS 519 used to cancel GB GVI 2½d pale		ENV	B	£4.50

Army Museum Covers and Special BFPS Postmarks

Date	Postmark	BFPS No.		Price
19 Sep 1969	Berlin Tattoo (on PSC)	1096	A	£0.95
20 Sep 1969	Battle of Britain Fete (on PSC)	1099	A	£1.25
10 Jul 1970	50^th Anniv. of Larkhill School of Artillery	1125	B	£1.25
25 Oct 1970	Seventh Earl of Cardigan – Group 3 – No.3	1216	B	£0.95
16 Jan 1971	Corunna Exhibition – Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst Group 3 – No.5	1222	B	£0.95
15 Oct 1971	Anniversary of Reflief of Kimberley 1899 (on FAL)	1248	A	£1.25
7 Jun 1981	37^th Anniv. of Mulberry Harbour	1944	A	£0.75
23 Oct 1982	FLOWN postcard in Hot Air Balloon “Serendipity Too”	1790	A	£0.95

Military Covers

Date	Postmark			Price
-	Crowned circle “Passed by Censor / No. 7000” from S Algeria with picture of caravan.	PPC	A	£0.95

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Cover
This shows the media on which the postmark is struck as follows:
PPC – Picture Postcard
PC – Plain Postcard
FSC – Field Service Post Card (Official type)
FAL – Forces Air Letter
PSC – Postal Stationery Post Card
PSL – Postal Stationery Letter Card
PSE – Postal Stationery Envelope
SPE – Specially Printed Envelope
ENV – Plain Envelope
FL – Folded Letter