Great Britain and British Commonwealth Great Britain County Postal History Channel Islands - 1940-45 German Occupation
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Lot No: 633
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Channel Islands - 1940-45 German Occupation. Ten "Deutsche Rotes Kreuz" cloth armbands, apparently acquired in the Channel Islands at the end of the war. Also a handmade cloth Swastika. (11).
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Lot No: 634
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Ten "Deutsche Rotes Kreuz" cloth armbands, apparently acquired in the Channel Islands at the end of the war. Also a 1944 German "Ausweis" card issued in Guernsey to M. Miller authorising the wearing of a Red Cross armband, signed with official cachet of "Feldldlr 515". (11).
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Lot No: 635
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Two large albums containing original photos of the occupation (18, three depicting damage caused by the first air raid on Guernsey on 29th June 1940), numerous cuttings from "The Guernsey Evening Press" between June 1940 and June 1941, and a Red Cross envelope with Guernsey c.d.s to G. Richards, the compiler of these albums. Also a Photo album kept by a German soldier containing 37 photos, a portrait inscribed "in memory of my service on the channel coast 1.4.41" with several photos apparently taken in the Channel Islands, others from Paris and eastern Europe; and a tin of grenade pulls picked up on beaches in the islands. (3 albums +).
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1941-45 "Channel Islands Monthly Review", Journal of Channel Islands Refugees in Great Britain, a complete run of all fifty journals published between May 1941 and August 1945. Also "The Origin of the Contents of our Canadian Red Cross Parcels", published by the States Intermediate School and sold in aid of Red Cross funds, 2nd edition, July 1945, etc. (51+).
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Lot No: 637
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Various letters and ephemera (88+) concerning the islands during the war, many from the British Red Cross or Channel Islands Refugee Committee, some 1945 letters sent between Miss Trouteaud at the R.C.M.B in Guernsey and the British Red Cross concerning forwarding further Red Cross messages, etc., also Red Cross & St. John War Organisation letters with copies of telegram messages from Guernsey received via the I.C.R.C in Geneva (5), Christmas Greetings cards from the British Red Cross packing centres (2), a few Red Cross message forms, card and lettersheet from internees at Biberach, etc. Also two rare cloth patches with a crown, one above "H.30 / H.65 / H.91" (B Class destroyers H.M.S Beagle, Bulldog, Boadicea) apparently acquired at the time of the island's liberation. An interesting group. (90+).
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Lot No: 638
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1940 (Aug 4) Cover with enclosed letter from Francis Margot in Guernsey, franked 3d to F. Kreter in Montreux, Switzerland, but endorsed "cannot be forwarded to destination" and handstamped "UNDELIVERED FOR REASON STATED / RETURN TO SENDER". The enclosed letter asks her father F. Kreter to send a letter to George Vandin in Wales telling him the family are well, and for Vandin to reply to F. Kreter in Switzerland, who will in turn write to Miss E. Vandin in Guernsey. An unusual and scarce attempt to get mail to Britain shortly after the start of the occupation. Photo on Page 106. (Image1)
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Lot No: 639
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Marie Langin/P.O Box 506. 1940-43 Covers (2) and message forms (2) to or from former Jersey resident Marie Langin at Gargilesse in France, comprising 1940 cover (opening tears) posted from Lisbon to Marie Langin with enclosed letter from Mary Williams dated August 22 in which she states "Please address your reply - Mrs Mary Williams, c/o Post Box 506, Lisbon, Portugal" (Thomas Cook undercover address for writing to G.B); 1943 cover from T. Lee in Jersey to Marie Langin franked Germany 25m tied by "FELDPOST / g" c.d.s, Wehrmacht censor label and cachet code "X" applied in Paris; and two 1943 French Red Cross message forms sent by Marie Langin from Gargilesse to England, one stampless form to Mary Williams in Somerset, another form to London franked 1f.50 cancelled at Lyon, the message mentioning receiving regular news from the Jersey garage. A scarce and unusual group. (4). Photo on Page 106. (Image1)
