1939-45 inwards censored mail comprising Barbados 1941 large cover registered with Badge 1d & 6d and 'IMPORT, EXPORT AND CURRENCY CONTROL BOARD/BARBADOS' h/s; Canada 1941 long cover by PanAm Clipper with Pictorials 10c x6, 50c & $1 and 1945 Armed Forces Air Letter with 10c single & 'OAT' cachet; Ceylon 1944 registered with local '("L")/154' label (the 'L' added in red crayon); Egypt 1941 airmails x2; Fiji 1942 surface rate with 'TAVUA' cds; Great Britain 1941 Clipper airmails one at 4/6d the other with KGVI 5/- solo franking; Ireland 1943 airmail double-censored with 'OAT' cachet; Japan 1939-40 surface rate covers x3; Malaya 1940-41 airmails x5 all double-censored one registered & one with 'MALAYA PATRIOTIC FUND' label on face; Netherlands Indies 1940 with 'By air to Australia and/onwards airtransmission' h/s; Sweden 1943 airmail with 'ASEA' perfins and 'OAT' cachet; and USA at 70c Clipper rate x3 one 1945 with 'NAVAL CENSOR' cachet plus 1943 V-Mail envelope at 6c rate; condition quite mixed.
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1941 air cover to a serviceman in Palestine with 1d & Koala 4d x2 tied 'FIELD PO 7MD/25OC41/017' cds used at Larrakeyah Barracks (Darwin), censored locally with civilian ' 7 / OPENED BY CENSOR' label (Little type L7-3) tied by ' 7 /PASSED/BY/CENSOR / 3 ' diamond cachet in rosine, minor blemishes. [After the Japanese attacked Darwin in February 1942, most civilians were relocated from the Northern Territory and the censor station was moved inland to Alice Springs where it handled almost exclusively military mail]
1941 Cairns (Qld) 'OPENED BY CENSOR' resealing label (rouletted top & bottom) plus ' 1/3 /PASSED/BY/CENSOR/ [ ] ' diamond cachet (without number at base) in violet applied in transit on face of cover to USA with Papua Pictorials 3d Dandy tied 'PORT MORESBY/30DE38/PAPUA' cds. The Cairns civilian censor station operated from late-1940 to late-1941/early-1942 only; by April 1942 many of the civilian population had been evacuated (as Cairns was in range of Japanese bombers) and Australian & US troops had begun moving into the area, bringing military censorship stations with them (as also happened at Darwin).
1941 (Sep 28) social cover to Scotland with KGVI 2d red tied by 'THURSDAY ISLAND/ 2 /...' cds, rare ' 1/1 PASSED BY CENSOR' label tied by the equally elusive ' 1/1 /PASSED/BY/CENSOR/ 2 ' h/s in violet, a couple of minor blemishes. An important civil censorship cover.
1942 registered airmail to Brisbane from naval serviceman with boxed 'NAVAL SERVICE' cachet, 1d 2d & 4d tied 'THURSDAY ISLAND/9FE42/QUEENSLAND' cds with blue R label alongside, fine strike of scarce civilian censor cachet ' 1/1 /PASSED/CENSOR/ 1 ' ('1' at base Inverted; Little type H1/1-1b, ERD) on face & back, Cairns & Brisbane transits and 'FORTITUDE VALLEY' arrival b/s, a few aging marks & U/L & corner clipped. [Scarce registered mail offloaded & censored at Thursday Island]
1943 airmail Hobart to Queensland Construction Camp censored with red/white label (Little #L6-6b) tied by small circular 'CHECKED/BY/ 6/2 ' cachet in violet - unrecorded by Little - on the face, forwarded to "1 Aust Corps/Recp Camp" then to Papua with 'FIELD POST OFFICE/20JE43/019.' b/s, finally 'RETURN TO SENDER/ON/MILITARY BOARD INSTRUCTIONS' cachet in violet on face, some water-staining & other blemishes. Crash mail?