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Changi P.O.W Camp. 1943-44 Programmes for plays performed in the camp theatre (7), five of these special souvenir programmes with handpainted covers, including "Hay Fever" with signatures of 18 prisoners who acted in or helped produce the play, all apparently kept by Pte S. Jacobs. Also other ephemera including leaflets in British and Japanese dropped over Changi at the end of the war, unused P.O.W card, 1945 telegram sent by Jacobs from Colombo, 1943 official letter to his wife informing her he was a P.O.W with a separate slip showing how to address mail, Photo of Jacobs, 1941 pre-war Christmas menu from Ipoh, etc. A scarce and interesting group. (7+).
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1942-44 Stampless covers and cards (9), cover franked 2½d and a 3d P.O.W postcard (faults) all from G.B to British P.O.Ws in Malaya, three with Japanese censor cachets, eight with pencil endorsements indicating the location of the addressee, which include Kranji, River Valley Camp, Southern Area, Officers Area, Kranji No. 2 Camp and Woodlands Hospital Camp, two endorsed by the recipients as received at "Jail Camp" or "precincts Changi Jail". (11).
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1942-44 Stampless postcard and 3d P.O.W cards (4) from England, addressed to L/Bdr G.T Cook (2, one marked "Received Selarang", the other marked "X2" for Kranji Camp), Corp F.S Brown (2, to Kranji) or Sigmn P.J Hawker of the 3rd Indian Army Royal Corps Signals, all with Japanese and British censors. Also 1945 telegrams sent to Hawker on the repatriation ship "Tegelberg" at Gibraltar, or from Cook at Colombo. (7).
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Australia. 1943-44 Australian Red Cross envelopes printed in red or blue, both from Elliston, South Australia, to Pte. Kevin Kenny, A.I.F., both censored in Australia, the second also with Japanese censor and Elliston c.d.s, directed in pencil to "Sime Rd" or "Ammo Sub, Changi". (2).
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Nepal. 1943 (June 27) P.O.W card, the front identical to the type 1 cards, the reverse with preprinted messages including "I am quite well under kind treatment of Nippon authority", etc, sent by L/Naik Hari Lal Thapa of 2/2 Gurkha Rifles to Chhola village in Nepal, with Japanese and Indian censors and datestamps of Kathmandu Exchange P.O and Nuwakot West No. 4 (21 Nov. 1943), a few pinholes, otherwise fine. Tett only records one other example of this Singapore P.O.W card with preprinted messages, sent by an Indian P.O.W (the cards presumably only issued to Indian & Nepalese P.O.Ws), and this is the only recorded item from a Nepalese Gurkha P.O.W in a Japanese camp. An exceptionally rare and important card. Photo on Page 30. (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image1)
