1942-45 group related to Pte Roly Small comprising undated cover to him at Changi but apparently not posted; 1943 (Nov 9) chirpy message transcribed from a radio broadcast out of Changi with the covering AMF letter advising that the message may be bogus; 1943 (Nov 14) two-page letter incorrectly dated "1942" from a member of Small's unit who states "...[We] went to a camp on the Thai-Burma Railway known as No 1 Camp Shuma Sonkuri ... [he] contracted Malaria & Dysentery which was responsible for his untimely death ... approximately the 20th to 31st July 1943 ..."; post-war Army HQ letter confirming Small "died of illness" & listing his awarded medals; and a piece from a 4½d Medal Wrapper with Melbourne R label handstamped 'Army'; condition variable. A poignant group. The letter was written from Concord Military Hospital (NSW) suggesting the writer had been repatriated on the first voyage of the 'Asama Maru' & 'Gripsholm'.  (7 items) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

MOULMEIN: From an uninterned woman at Bandoeng to her husband 1) 1943 3½c Dai Nippon Postal Card/buff to "Blanda/Java A" but redirected to "No 3 Gr/Moulmein/Burma", no Japanese censorship; 2) similar but small card on cream to "Moulmein Burma", boxed censor & unidentified han both in scarlet; 3) another example to "No 2 POW Camp/Thailand" readdressed "No 2 Gr/Oversea" crossed-through then "No 10 Gr", straight-line boxed censor in rosine but no han; and 4) Japanese 3½s Buffalo Postal Card to "Camp Sanatorium/POW Camp Thailand" with censor in violet & superb but unidentified large han in rosine; the first two with messsages in Malay, the others in English. An unusually fine group.  (4) (Image1)

Estimate AU$800

MOULMEIN: 1943 (circa) First Type of Japanese POW postal card with '...PRISONIERS DE GUERRE' heading (error for 'PRISONNIERS') and printed 'CAMP War Prisoners Camp/Moulmein BURMA', largely printed "letter", two different Japanese censor cachets & han of Naito all in scarlet, fine & clear 'DAMAGED BY FIRE/IN TRANSIT' cachet in violet, 'NORTH DALTON/24/AU/43/DRIFFIELD YORKSHIRE' arrival cds & redirected locally, overall soiling & reinforced central vertical fold. A rare item: Lindsay Chitty states only six First Type cards are recorded from Burma. From the flying boat that crashed in Ireland en route from Portugal: David Tett records only four items from Burma with the cachet, this being the fourth in his census. The similar card illustrated by him in Volume 3 at p45 is badly damaged. (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,500

MOULMEIN: 1943 Second Type of Japanese POW postal card with '...PRISONERS DE GUERRE' heading (error for 'PRISONNIERS') and printed 'CAMP War Prisoners Camp/Moulmein BURMA', wholly printed "letter" with two lines at base for personal message, two different Japanese censor cachets & han of Yamada all in scarlet, British censor in rosine, very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

MOULMEIN: 1943 (Jan 27) Japanese POW postal card in black & red inscribed 'SERVICE DES PRISONIERS...' (error for Prisonniers) at the top & 'CAMP War Prisoners Camp/Moulmein BURMA' on both sides, elaborate dated camp censor & han of Naito both in scarlet, to Australia with Melbourne censor, faint pencilled "Received 6.10.43" at left. (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

MOULMEIN: 1943 (Nov 11) Australian Red Cross envelope with red obliterating bar at the base, to "Moulmein Camp Burma" with Melbourne machine & censor, Japanese Red Cross 'roundel' in rosine, forwarded to Tamuang Camp in Thailand with censor in black & fine han of Adachi in scarlet, "4 Feb 1945" endorsed on reverse indicating transit time of 15 months, minor faults. Australian mail to POWs in Burma is rare. [See also Lot 1612] (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

MOULMEIN: 1943 (Nov 23) plain postcard to "Sgt Burgoyne/Moulmein Camp/BURMA" with British censor in rosine, faint Japanese censor in scarlet & han of Nonaka in scarlet; and 1944 (May 9) British 3d POW Airmail Postal Card to the promoted Company Sergeant-Major Burgoyne/Moulmein/BURMA" with British censor in rosine, the reverse with Japanese censor in violet & unrecorded han in scarlet. Burgoyne received no mail until after the Japanese surrender, when 11 items for him were "discovered".  (2) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

REPATRIATION MAIL: 1945 (Aug 31) Indian telegram from Simla advising of "recovery" of Colonel JR Williamson with 'NAINITAL/GTO' cds; two Indian Forces air letters from Rangoon both endorsed "EX POW MAIL" & with Indian-pattern 'FPO/No145' cds of 4.9 or 5.9.1945; official wartime photograph of aircraft carrier HMS 'Searcher' on which Williamson travelled Rangoon-Madras; letter of 25.9.1945 from POWs Relatives Assocn (India) welcoming his return; and small photograph of his daughters with Thai Camp censor in violet & han of Suzuki Yosjihiki in scarlet. Intimate group: the letters open "Dear Mrs Rabbit..."  (6 items) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

KIANGSU PROVINCE (YANGCHOW INTERNMENT CAMP): 1945 (May 30) British 1½d red-brown POW Airmail Postal Card with Victory Bells machine of Paddington, to "Civil Assembly Centre/Yangchow, Kiangsu" with British censor in rosine, Japan surrendered before it could be delivered. The 1½d card was issued in -.4.1945, but because there were still many 3d cards to be used up, postally used examples are very scarce. (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

NORTH CHINA (WEIHSIEN INTERNMENT CAMP): 1942 (Dec 6) cover from Somerset with Weston-Super- Mare Christmas slogan, to an Anglican missionary in "Pekin", no Japanese markings but with redirection label 'CIVIL ASSEMBLY CENTRE/WEIHSIEN, SHANTUNG', slightly trimmed at right on opening. (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

SHANGHAI (CHAPEI CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMP): 1942 (Aug 16) cover from Northamptonshire to interned missionaries with Japanese censor label across British label & arrival cds of 19.3.4 (= 4.3.1944), Japanese Red Cross 'roundel' in violet on the reverse, pencilled "Chapei", opened-out for display. The camp was on the site of the former Great China University, 11km from Shanghai. (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

SHANGHAI (CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMPS): circa 1943-44 trio from uninterned civilians to the 'Civilian Assembly Centres' at Pootung or Weihsien (from the British Embassy in Peking), both very fine; and a part-wrapper to an internee at the former American Columbia Country Club.   (3 items) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

SHANGHAI (HAIPHONG CIVILIAN ROAD INTERNMENT CAMP): Undated cover with British censor label but no postal markings, unidentified han in scarlet known to have been used at Haiphong Road, endorsed "X8" indicating delivery (to the internee's wife?) at Yangchow, small opening tear at the base. (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

SHANGHAI (HAIPHONG ROAD CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMP): 1945 (Mar 10) red/buff 'COMMUNICATIONS' form between internees at Haiphong Road with camp censor in rosine, and at Lunghua. (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

SHANGHAI (LUNGHWA CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMP): 1943 (Aug 3) usage of Japanese red/cream lettersheet with instructions in English with 'MESSAGE' from wife at Lunghwa &  'REPLY' on the reverse dated "21.9.43" on behalf of her husband at Haiphong Road, both sides with large cachet in rosine (Japanese Consulate-General at Shanghai) in rosine & unidentified han in scarlet. (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

SHANGHAI (LUNGHWA CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMP): 1945 (Oct 3)  registered airmail cover from Alaska with Prexies 10c & 20c x4 tied by dumb cancels to "Shanghia [sic] China", the reverse festooned with cds of 'JUNEAU/ALASKA', five different American Forces datestamps including the most unusual "lemon" 'SFRE APO REG SEC/SAN FRANCISCO CALIF' & indistinct Shanghai arrival cds of 25.11.1945, pencilled "APO 290" in Manila, central vertical fold. The addressee, John Sweet was a British engineer formerly at the Shanghai Waterworks. Lunghwa was 12km SW of Shanghai at the former Kiangsu Middle School. (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

SHANGHAI (LUNGHWA CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMP): 1944 (Feb 10) red/buff 'Civil Assembly Centre/ Local Message' form from an uninterned Danish woman to a female friend at Lunghwa, Japanese Consulate-General Shanghai cachet in violet, pencilled "20 days Recd Mar 2nd 1945" (error for 1944). (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

SHANGHAI (LUNGHWA CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMP): 1944 (June 6) Red Cross '...ENQUIRER' form from a 9 year-old boy (probably written by his mother) to a relative in Lancashire with Japanese Consulate-General Shanghai cachet, Turkish Red Cross cds of 5.12.1944 & British censor cachet all in rosine, message states "...all here very fit. Children enjoy camp life..." (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

SHANGHAI (POOTUNG CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMP): 1943 (May 12) cover endorsed on flap "Civil Assembly Centre/Pootung/Shanghai" to "Civil Assembly Centre/Yangchow" with 16c olive tied by Shanghai cds, Chinese-language Kiangsu cds on the reverse, pencilled "C Camp" & "X8" (?) in red. There were three camps at Yangchow, designated A B & C. (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

SHANGHAI (POOTUNG CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMP): 1944 cover from an uninterned civilian in Shanghai to her husband at "Civil Assembly Centre/Pootung" with $1.50 on 3c pair tied by Shanghai cds with indistinct date, 'CENSORED' cachet in red & Shanghai postman's chop in black. (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

SHANGHAI CAMP: 1942 (May 29) American cover without POW endorsement so paid with 3c 'Prexie' tied by Grand Rapids (Minnesota) machine, to an American soldier "formerly at Wake Island/Interned at Shanghai China" per the Red Cross at Geneva where endorsed "SHANGHAI/China", Japanese censor & han of Endo both in rosine. On 23.12.1941, the Japanese captured the US submarine base on Wake Island. 1187 troops were taken to Shanghai as POWs. (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

SHANGHAI CAMP: 1944 (Feb 14; Valentine's Day) cover from London to "Shanghai Prisoners of War Camp", British censor label & unusually also with Japanese censor label tied to the reverse by Japanese cds, censor in rosine & han of Matsui in scarlet, endorsed "Received 21.2.45", with the brief enclosure also with the censor marks on the reverse (which was evidence the POW was permitted to retain the letter).  (2 items) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

SHANGHAI CAMP: 1944 (Aug 7) Japanese POW postal card with printed 'BARRACK No ("2")/Shanghai War-prisoner's [sic] Camp', from a British soldier to his mother "...have received another letter from you and flowers in spring" (!!), very fine han of Matsui, light central vertical fold. (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

SHANGHAI CAMP: 1944 (Dec 12) British 3d Airmail Postal Card to "Shanghai Barrack/No 2 Section 7 [may be 'H' ?]", British & Japanese censors & han of Matsui all in rosine, minor imperfections. Arrived in China before Lance-Corporal Cavill was moved to Korea, in May 1945. (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

ARGYLE STREET OFFICERS CAMP (CAMP N): circa 1943 simple Japanese POW envelope to London with British censor label lifted to reveal superb han in scarlet, the reverse with rubber 'HOME POSTAL CENTRE/ R.E. /8JAN1944/A.P.O.' cds in violet and 5-line 'The original address on this letter/was incorrect or incomplete/.../War Office AG17c' cachet in rosine, redirected locally with London machine of 13JAN/1944, and again to "Bovington Camp" with 'WAREHAM/17JA/44/DORSET' arrival cds which obscures pencilled "Full unit/details not provided". (Image1)

Estimate AU$300