The John Minns East Africa: Uganda: Post Offices 1899 to 1916: Ankole (Mbarara): 1900 (Sept. 20) envelope to Montreal, Canada franked 'small Queen' 1a. tied by very fine single circle c.d.s., 1905 incoming B.E.A. 1/2a. card from Mombasa with fine Mar. 9 arrive fleuron c.d.s., slight creasing. (2 items) (Image1)

The John Minns East Africa: Uganda: Post Offices 1899 to 1916: Ankole (Mbarara): 1904 (Jan. 29) White Fathers missionary mail, cover to Marseille franked 'small Queen' 21/2a. tied by fine fleuron c.d.s., backstamped Kampala, Mombasa and arrival backstamps. Photo. (Image1)

Uganda: Post Offices 1899 to 1916: Ankole (Mbarara): ANKOLE BISECT: 1905 (Nov. 15) envelope (with family crest on flap) sent by Dr. L.D. Lowsley to his sister in Berkshire bearing previously unrecorded K.E.VII 2a. left half vertical bisect tied by fine fleuron c.d.s. (with day/month line inverted) and accompanying manuscript note at left "1/2 2 anna stamp used instead/of a 1 anna on account/of officials being out of/the latter. Nov. 14th 1905", backstamped Kampala Nov. 21 and Mombasa Nov. 2. The bisect was not accepted by the authorities, a pencil circle added alongside together with Protectorate's "T" in circle mark and large London "1D/F.B.B./B." handstamp. Lionel Dewe Lowsley (1866-1936) was born in Hampstead Norris, Berks., the son of a wealthy landowner. He joined the Colonial Service in 1901 as a medical officer, stationed first in Uganda (1902-12) and subsequently in Kenya (1912-16). On June 26 1906 Mbarara was officially declared a township and in his medical report for the Ankole district that year Lowsley provided a fascinating description of the mud built civil quarters as well as the ill effects of 'muhinyo', a native disease prevalent in the district, which he identified as a local variant of dengue fever. He retired in 1916 due to ill-health and died in Mombasa on 11 May 1936, his wife Marion being subsequently granted a compassionate pension. Lowsley's brother Horace stayed in Hampstead Norris as its vicar, the benefice having been inherited from their father by elder brother Lionel, living in the vicarage with their surviving younger sister Naomi Ella, a lifelong spinster. •ÈÀThe property of another vendor and a new discovery. Photo. (Image1)

The John Minns East Africa: Uganda: Post Offices 1899 to 1916: Entebbe: 1902 (Feb. 27) envelope to Wimbledon bearing "UGANDA" overprint 1/2a., 21/2a., the latter showing variety inverted "S" in "ANNAS" [R. 1/1], tied by Entebbe double circle c.d.s's, endorsed "Registered" but sent by ordinary mail with Mombasa Mar 2 transit and Apr, 1 arrival on reverse. Ex Dunstan and Rossiter. Photo. (Image1)

The John Minns East Africa: Uganda: Post Offices 1899 to 1916: Entebbe: Double circle c.d.s's "MY 16/1902" on 1/2a. block of four, "JY 31/1902" tying "UGANDA" overprint 1/2a. (2), 21/2a. (2) to registered cover to New Barnet, "JY 23/1903" cancelling B.E.A. 1a. stationery card to Copenhagen with signed message from postmaster. (3 items) (Image1)

The John Minns East Africa: Uganda: Post Offices 1899 to 1916: Fort Portal: 1902 (Feb. 6) underpaid envelope to Cannes bearing Uganda 'small Queen' 1a. with unframed "T" and French 30c. postage due affixed and cancelled Apr. 5, also 1903 (Apr. 6) 'White Fathers' cover from Buddu (Masaka) to Marseille franked marginal B.E.A. 21/2a. (Image1)

The John Minns East Africa: Uganda: Post Offices 1899 to 1916: Fort Portal: World War I internal civil censorship, two incoming covers with receiving single circle c.d.s., sent 1916 (Sept. 11) from Jinja franked K.G.V 6c. and (July 24) from Kampala (stampless or stamp removed), both with blue resealing censor label, the latter also with Kampala censor's cachet. (Image1)

The John Minns East Africa: Uganda: Post Offices 1899 to 1916: Gondokoro: 1904 (Jan. 15) B.E.A. 1a. stationery card cancelled by part Gondokoro c.d.s addressed "via Mombasa" to London with Khartoum Jan. 26 transit c.d.s. with dated ms. endorsement by J. Hall Newton on reverse. Ex Dunstan. Also 'small Queen' 2a. cancelled by Khartoum retta. Photo. (Image1)

The John Minns East Africa: Uganda: Post Offices 1899 to 1916: Kampala: Single circle fleuron c.d.s's tying 1/2a. 'small Queen' to 1902 ("UGANDA" overprint 1/2a.) and 1903 (Apr. 9) "BOOK POST/UGANDA NOTES" part wrappers and 1904 (Feb. 23) improvised wrapper to England, cancelling 1/2a. block of six and pair to 1905 (Jan. 11) cover from Rev. John Bremner Purvis to Co. Durham, and 1a. on 1904 (Jan. 22) from Dr. Albert Ruskin Cook to London. (5 items) (Image1)

The John Minns East Africa: Uganda: Post Offices 1899 to 1916: Kampala: 1903, "UGANDA" overprint 2a. registered envelope size J from Kampala to India with "AR" (avis de r̩ception) in double ring and bearing 'small Queen' 1a. pairs (2) paying double rate postage and 'AR' fee, backstamped Mombasa Foreign Registration Dept. and Dec. 1 arrival. Believed to be the earliest known "AR" cover from Uganda. Photo. (Image1)

The John Minns East Africa: Uganda: Post Offices 1899 to 1916: Kisumu: 1903 (May 18) and (Dec. 12) two envelopes registered to England at 3a. rate and showing registration handstamp in violet (known Mar.-May 1903) and black respectively, the first (ex Evans) to Huddersfield, redirected to Leith bearing Uganda 3a., the second (ex Rossiter) to Dulwich with B.E.A. 3a., an interesting pair. Photo. (Image1)

The John Minns East Africa: Uganda: Post Offices 1899 to 1916: Kisumu: Lake Victoria Steamer Mail, 1904 (Nov. 27) East Africa & Uganda 1/2a. card with added B.E.A. 1/2a. used to Ujiji via Muanza with Feb. 21 arrival, 1905 p.p.c. from England to the Muanza postal agent and redirected to Ujiji with Mombasa, Kisumu, Muanza and arrival c.d.s's. (2 items) Photo. (Image1)

The John Minns East Africa: Uganda: Post Offices 1899 to 1916: Masindi: The Masindi Bisect, 1898-1902 2a. red-brown diagonal bisect, tied by (Dec. 1? 1899 Masindi c.d.s. to C.M.S. envelope endorsed "No One Anna/Stamps/available at/Masinidi/Post Office" and addressed to the Mombasa Postmaster by Rev. A.B. Fisher, with runner's vertical folds and Jan. 24 1900 arrival c.d.s. on reverse. B.P.A. certificate (2004) Arthur Bryan Fisher (1870-1955) was accepted as a C.M.S. missionary in 1892 and served largely in Uganda at Kasaka, Kinakulya, Toro, Bunyoro, Hoima and Gulu. In 1902 he married fellow missionary Ruth Hurditch. He retired from service in 1914 and died at Eastbourne in 1955. Only one other Masindi bisect on cover is recorded, the other addressed to Bishop Tucker at Namirembe (Mengo) in Mar. 1900. Photo. (Image1)