Malta, Gibraltar, Italy, Salonica & the Balkans. Malta & Gibraltar. 1914-19 Covers and cards from Malta (33) with A.P.O HD1 (7) or S.Z7 skeleton (10)or sent through the civil P.O, eleven with "ON ACTIVE SERVICE / MEDTN" Red Cross cachets, and covers to or from soldiers in the Royal Malta Artillery, card from the French navy at Malta, etc. Also Gibraltarcards from soldiers (5, four stampless) and a cover bearing "OPENED BY CENSOR" label with coat of arms. (40).

Italy - Adriatic Mission. 1915-16 Cover from England to "Major A. Martin Leake V.C, R.A.M.C, British Adriatic Mission", missent to Salonica and Marseille, finally sent to Brindisi with Base Army Post Office W backstamp (edge faults, sealed with stamp tape), and O.A.S covers and cards with the Base Army Post Office W c.d.s (4). Also O.A.S cover with triangular "PASSED / BY CENSOR / (crown)" used at Palermo hospital camp in 1916. Martin Leake was one of only three double V.C winners, wining a V.C in the Boer War and another in 1914. (6).

Italy. 1917-19 Covers and cards from British forces in Italy, mainly written up on pages with many differing A.P.O and F.P.O datestamps, a few Italian censors or cachets with some posted in the Italian army or civil post systems, cards from the British supply mission with cachets including the British Commission for the Export of Oranges, etc. (153).

Albania. 1919 O.A.S Picture postcards of Scutari from the small British detachment in Albania, sent through Italy with A.P.O S100 c.d.s of Taranto, scarce. (2).

Salonica. 1916-19 Covers and cards mainly written up on pages with many different A.P.O and F.P.O datestamps including items from the Struma front, telegram forms, registered mail, ingoing covers, etc., a good lot. (176).

British Military Mission to Serbian Army / Corfu. 1916-19 Postcards, covers and a front with F.P.O W2 datestamps (3) used by the British Mission to the Serbian army, the first two from Salonica, the final 1919 (Feb 13) Greek 10L card sent from Uskub in Serbia; F.P.O W4 datestamps (5, one unclear, one on a Serbia 10p card) used by the Adriatic Mission in Corfu, assisting the defeated Serbian army; and A.P.O SX6 (2, one a registered front) serving Serbian hospitals at Vertekop in Salonica. Also a stampless O.A.S cover from Belgrade, and a 1919 naval cover to the British Embassy in Belgrade with arrival c.d.s. (12).

Bulgaria - Air Mails. 1918 Stampless O.A.S postcard of Sofia with octagonal censor cachet No. 474 (known to have been used in Sofia), flown by R.A.F air service to Salonica with F.P.O GX c.d.s applied upon arrival. The R.A.F operated a biweekly air service between Salonica and Sofia from October until December 1918, the flight taking 2 hours when a road and rail journey took 3 days. Very scarce, only about four other examples recorded (one of which sold for £380 in our March 2019 auction). Photo on Page 98. (Image1)

Bulgaria. 1919 O.A.S Covers and cards, two written in Bulgaria but sent out through Greece with A.P.O SX 20 skeleton datestamps, the others posted in Bulgaria with datestamps of F.P.O 79 or T26 (corner fault), A.P.O R26 (skeleton) or SX9 (2), also piece with two 1/- stamps cancelled at F.P.O 77. (8). Photo on Page 98. (Image1)