1940 registered cover to "Sgt BM Mathers/No 580922 RAF/No 10 Squadron/Leaming/Yorkshire" with QE 1d x2, KGVI 2d, Koala 4d, Ram 5d & Robes 5/- tied Sydney '13SE40' cds paying 5/10d FAM-19 PanAm Clipper rate plus 3d registration fee, censored with Sydney label & cachet, on arrival festooned with cachets including 'SECRET', 'CONFIDENTIAL', 'IMMEDIATE', 'CERTIFIED NO ENTRY' etc plus 'No 7' Squadron markings & 'SQUADRON/ WORKSHOPS' h/s, some aging marks & minor faults. Status?

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1940 Middle East Forces using Palestine Stamps mostly airmail to Australia with a wide variety of frankings, censor markings and Australian Field PO cancels including '.../B.W.1', '.../S.M.1', '.../D.W.1', 'S.P.1', '.../P.1'and '.../P.3' plus British 'FIELD POST OFFICE/121' & '.../123' cds, a number on Honour Envelopes, some sent through civilian POs including 'JERUSALEM' cds on 20m x6 with 'RAILHEAD P.O./R.M.1' cds alongside used on 'TPO' which travelled between the camps, 'SARAFAND' cds on 5m pair & 10m x5 with violet 'Insufficiently prepaid/for Air mail' cachet, two with 20m x9 paying triple rate (one with 'Insufficiently prepaid ...' cachet crossed out), a few with unit cachets '2/2/Bn AIF', '2/3rd Battalion' or '2/4th Battalion', plus YMCA envelope sent surface mail with 15m single tied 'HAIFA' and red 'PC 22' censor label tied 'PALESTINE/OPENED AND/PASSED BY/CENSOR/No. N18' cachet, one with 10m single from 'SARAFAND' with Sydney 'T /("1½")/5A' tax cachet, and part-parcel wrapper with 6m & 15m x2 tied dumb cancels, condition variable but mostly fine. (31)

Estimate AU$300

1941 formular aerogramme with 'AUSTRALIA.' at lower-right and 'POSTAGE PAID/12 CENTS/JOHORE' h/s in red at upper-right unused, minor aging marks. The only unused example we have recorded.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1941 OAS airmail cover endorsed from "LJ Golding A/B" with fine red boxed 'PASSED BY CENSOR/[initialled]/ DATE: ("26.6.41")' h/s on the face, to NSW with Sydney civil censor label & cachet at left, minor blemishes; plus 1940 cover to same addressee with italicised 'On Active Service' h/s in red and 'VICTORIA/19MY/40/HONG KONG' cds alongside with same 'PASSED ...' cachet on reverse, minor faults. [A similar 1940 item from the same correspondence sold for HK$2990 in June 2018. See also Lot 602636] (2)

Able Seaman Leslie John Golding was with the Royal Australian Navy. He served aboard the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMAS 'Kanimbla' which, in April 1940, commandeered one Danish & ten Norwegian ships at the mouth of the Yangtse River and escorted them to Hong Kong. In January 1942 he was transferred to HMAS 'Perth' which was sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait on 1.3.1942 and he was amongst the 307 survivors who were taken Prisoner of War.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1942-43 Hand-Illustrated covers many from Middle East & New Guinea forces, Navy servicemen or from other overseas postings, wide variety of frankings, postmarks, censor cachets & subjects including jungle scenes, palm trees, two-up game, Pyramids, old-town street, fighter planes, etc, illustrations range from the amateur to the artistic, plus Clarrie King 'I've been putting on weight lately', condition quite variable but most are presentable. Very colourful. (21)

Estimate AU$200

1945 (June 14) KGVI 7d Air Letter to serviceman "F/Sgt I Dent/RAAF" in London with 'RAAF/BASE PO NO 4/...28JUN45' arrival b/s but undeliverable with boxed violet 'RETURN TO SENDER ON/AIR BOARD ORDERS/("DJP Kelly") Flt/Officer in Charge/RAAF Base Post Office/London' cachet on face, 'Pointing Finger' and Sydney DLO markings, minor edge faults.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1945 use of Indian Air Force formular Air Letter with return address "c/- RNF Post Office/St Kilda Road 441/Melbourne" to Bombay with Lyrebid 1/- tied Perth '5MAY/1945' cancel, censored with violet 'Passed by RNF Censor/No 4' cachet and Indian 'C/14' octagonal h/s on face, couple of very minor blemishes. [The 7d aerogramme rate applied only if the Australian 7d Air Letter was used]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1945 cover airmail to Sydney with 'HMAS HOBART/2 SEPT/1945/TOKYO JAPAN' woodcut cds in magenta at lower-left and KGVI 3d brown tied by machine 'security' cancel with inscription excised, couple of minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1945 Netherlands Forces cover airmail to Australia with return address "NEI Post Office" and KGVI 3d brown tied 'AUST FPO/28AP45/ 192 ' cds used at Merauke, violet 'Passed by/RNF Censor/APR 1945/No.2' cachet on face, some bends & aging marks. [The Dutch Indies forces were referred to as the Fourth Ally]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1946 Netherlands Forces OAS cover with return address "Royal Netherlands East Indies Army/1st Security Battalion 2nd Coy/SEAC" to Melbourne, censored with blank white label tied by violet 'Passed by/RNF Censor/No 21' cachet on face, boxed 'Royal Netherlands Forces/CONCESSION RATE' cachet alongside most likely applied in Brisbane along with Airmail ettiquette and Koala 4d to pay concessional internal airmail rate, couple of minor blemishes. [South East Asia Command (SEAC) was based in Ceylon and the envelope presumably originated from there]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150