Germany & Allied Countries. Germany. 1937-45 Covers and cards, forces mail including 1937 manoeuvres, invasion of Austria, Sudetenland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russian front, Stalingrad, Waffen S.S, Dienstpost mail, Albania, 1938 Survey Ship "Meteor" North Atlantic Expedition c.d.s, cover to FP 07691 on Jersey, 1940 cover with cachet and c.d.s of the Germany-France Armistice Commission, registered mail, air mails, provisional cancels, etc. (68).

Germany. 1937-45 Covers and cards including Concentration Camp mail from Auschwitz, Oranienburg or Furstenberg; covers to or from children's camps or labour camps; occupation covers with German stamps from Luxembourg, Lithuania, Poland, Bohemia & Moravia and occupation overprints or stamp issues from Pskov, Latvia, Ostland or Ukraine, Lorraine, Croatia; provisional cancels; covers cancelled on Heligoland on VE day (2), etc. (50).

Italy. 1939-45 Covers and cards with forces mail from or to Russia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Ionian Islands, Somalia, Ethiopia, Rhodes, scarce c.d.s of the Italian Battalion in Tientsin, 1943 (July) forces mail intercepted and censored by the British (3) and later mail from Italian forces allied to G.B, also covers from the occupation of Albania or Slovenia, or from Italy with stamps of the Italian Socialist Republic. (51).

Italy - Naval Mail. 1940-43 Covers and cards with named ship datestamps (26, four C.T.O, also a front) including datestamps of the Submarines "Millelire", "Topazio", "Toti" (2), "Avorio" (sunk 1943) and "Bronzo" (captured 1943). Also 1949-54 covers with ship cancels or cachets (8). A scarce group. (35).

Hungary / Roumania / Bulgaria. 1938-44 Covers and cards from Hungarian forces (41, one with German Feldpost c.d.s and Organisation Todt cachets), Roumanian forces (29) or Bulgarian forces (9, one from 1938 manoeuvres). Also covers from Hungarian occupation of Transylvania or Slovakia (9), Bulgarian occupation of Southern Dobruja or Roumanian occupation of Ukraine; Hungarian (2) or Roumanian army internees in Hungary; and 1946-47 cards from Hungarian (2) or Roumanian P.O.Ws in Russia. (96).

Japan - Australian Invasion Force. c.1942 Stampless army postcard with return address of "147th Infantry Regt., 2nd Army, North Australia Expedition Army", from the forces in New Guinea intended for the invasion of Australia, censored. A little minor staining but very scarce; a similar card in our March 2019 suction sold for £500. Photo on Page 132. (Image1)

Japanese Occupation - Malaya. 1942-44 Covers (3) and a card comprising 1943 Perak 5c postcard with occupation overprint sent within Ipoh, Japanese censor; 1942 Johore Government Service cover from Kota Tinggi to Singapore bearing Japan 8c; 1944 cover from Johore Bahru to Malacca bearing Japanese Occupation Rebirth of Malaya 8c; and a stampless cover from G.B to a British civilian internee in Changi Camp. (4).

Japanese Occupation / China. 1943-44 Covers (7) and Savings Bank deposit cards (3) comprising Japanese Occupation stamp issues from Malaya (7) or Philippines, or postal stationery from Netherlands Indies or Burma; and a 1941 cover with China 2s pair tied by c.d.s of Chinese Military P.O 24 sub office 2. (11).