Western Front & Germany. August/September 1914. Covers and cards (72) and fronts (2) including cards from British tourists in Europe with interesting war news (2); from troops in G.B (6, one unpaid and charged ½d); from the B.E.F prior to free postage franked ½d or 1d (3), unpaid and charged 1d (4) or posted into the French postal system franked 10c; 1d Field Service stationery cards (9, earliest use being August 16 from the Advance Base P.O at Amiens, probably the earliest recorded use of this card); other cards posted into the French postal system franked 5c or 10c and transferred to the British army postal service (4); many other B.E.F covers and cards (a few with London Paid datestamps or French civil datestamps, most with A.P.O or F.P.O datestamps); also mail from French forces (2) or German forces (3, also a card censored on August 3rd); Royal Navy (2); French navy ("Marine Francaise" cachet, G.B 1d cancelled in London); Russian cards with security dumb cancels (2), etc., one B.E.F cover with unusual oval "PASSED BY / NO. 178 / CENSOR", also an October 19th card from a British P.O.W in Germany. (77).

Antwerp Operations. 1914 (Oct) Forces cards posted in Belgium with various civil post office datestamps (18, twelve with circular "P.C." censor cachets), "ARMY POST OFFICE / D" skeleton datestamps (2), forces cards with London Paid c.d.s (2) or "Received from H.M Ships", cover to a soldier killed on the retreat from Zeebrugge, card from a Marine upon his return to Deal on October 12th (unpaid, charged ½d), mail from Naval Brigade prisoners in Holland (8, one announcing his arrival as a prisoner in Holland with G.B ½d cancelled at Tilbury on October 12th) or in Germany (2). An interesting lot. (36).

Field Service Postcards. 1914-18 Cards including 1914 provisional types with reverse printing only on various coloured cards (7), cards with Christmas greetings added (5), cards to USA franked 1d or 10c, card used as an address label on a registered parcel franked 2d, Indian cards, unused medal riband application cards (2), privately produced cards from F.P.O 2X, etc. Also spoof cards (3, one produced for 1935 H.A.C visit to Flanders, another for 1938 A.I.F golf cup) and unused red honour envelope for urgent messages (Calcutta printing, vertical fold). (30).

Military Missions. 1915-19 Covers and cards (24) and fronts (3) from forces attached to other armies, 23 with various cachets, includes French Military Mission to the British army (11), Belgian Military Mission to the British army (5), British Mission to Belgian army (2) or to the French army (3), etc. (27).

1914-18 Covers from senior officers sent by Kings Messenger or army bag via the War Office including 1915 (Dec 15) cover with enclosed letter both signed by Field Marshal Sir John French, sent to Sir Evelyn Wood (also an associated letter signed by Wood); 1918 cover with boxed "K. (crown) M. / PRIVILEGE" (faults), etc. (3 covers + 2 letters).

Improperly Posted Mail. 1914-18 Covers and cards from British forces, posted into French civil post offices (16, nine with army censors and/or A.P.O datestamps), covers or cards with boxed "IMPROPERLY / POSTED / DELAYED" (3), "DELAYED / NOT / FRANKED", "THIS LETTER HAS BEEN DELAYED AS / THE CERTIFICATE WAS UNSIGNED AND / SPECIAL EXAMINATION WAS NECESSARY" (3) or "CONTAINS ......... IN COIN / POSTAL ORDERS / NOTES" (4, two types). (26).

Hospitals / Medical Services. 1914-18 Covers and cards (47) and fronts (3), most from or to British hospitals or ambulance convoys, many British or French cachets and some printed envelopes, censor cachets of 1st Anglo-Belgian Ambulance (faults) or Friends Ambulance Unit (2), a printed cover with cachets of Ambulance of the American Hospital in Paris, also picture postcards of the American Ambulance (8), etc. (50).

Army Censorship. 1914-16 Covers and cards with manuscript censorship due to missing censor cachets (4), covers with two differing types of censor cachets (4), multiple strikes, cachets with missing or incomplete numbers, circular framed "P.C." (8), handstruck Officers signatures, "VERIFIE" (3, two dated), Sadler-Jackson censor cachet, War Office censor, green boxed "NO PORTION OF THIS / COMMUNICATION MAY / BE PUBLISHED / BY ORDER / CENSOR", etc. (31).

Undeliverable Mail. 1914-18 Covers (37) and fronts (2) to British forces on the Western front all returned or redirected with various explanatory cachets, nearly all from G.B, three sent between troops in France and one from Canada, also covers from USA or Mauritius bearing labels "This letter is delayed owing to the address being wrongly written". (39).

Destinations. 1915-18 Covers and cards with Honour Envelope franked 2½d and a postcard franked 1d both to Spain, cover franked 2½d to Denmark, Field Service postcard franked 1d to Panama, and stampless items to Italy (charged 20c postage due in 1915), Denmark (3, one to Singapore and redirected to Copenhagen), Argentina (2), Chile or British Honduras. (12).

Guernsey Militia. 1914-17 Covers and cards to Guernsey (22) or Jersey (3), nearly all from soldiers in the Royal Guernsey Militia. (25).

Royal Engineers Postal Service. 1914-20 Covers and cards from or to members of the R.E.P.S, mostly on the Western front, a few from Germany or Egypt, several with cachets, photos of F.P.Os or postal staff (4), etc. (33).

Germany - Manoeuvres. 1924 Proof impressions of datestamps used on manoeuvres in the Eifel region (6), and 1926 postcard, front and piece with scarce "FIELD POST OFFICE / X" c.d.s used on manoeuvres at Bitche in Lorraine, also a picture of the Field Post Office tent with the F.P.O c.d.s applied by favour to the reverse. Very scarce. (10).

Germany - B.E.F Main Line T.P.O. 1919 Postcards with "B.E.F MAIN LINE T.P.O DOWN" double ring c.d.s (3, two types, also a backstamp on a registered cover) or skeleton c.d.s (2, large and small types), used on the Cologne to Boulogne army T.P.O. (6).

Germany - Air Mails. 1918 Covers with datestamps of F.P.O H6 at Cologne, both to London endorsed "By Aerial" or "Air Post", flown by R.A.F air service from Cologne to Folkestone. (2).

Germany - Schleswig Plebiscite. 1920 Stampless cover to England endorsed "Schleswig Plebiscite Force" with red London E.C Official Paid c.d.s (Feb 8). British troops from the 1st Bn. Sherwood Foresters were in Schleswig from January until May 1920 to help oversee the plebiscite and subsequent transfer of territory to Denmark and Germany; mail from this small force was sent by bag to London. Vertical fold and minor edge creasing but very scarce. Photo on Page 98. (Image1)

Germany - Plebiscites. 1920-35 Covers and cards with 1920 O.A.S cover from Danzig (F.P.O unclear), 1920-22 cover and wrapper front from G.B to Upper Silesia and part cover (address cut out) with A.P.O S120 c.d.s, 1920-22 covers with Marienwerder stamps (3), 1935 covers from Saar with F.P.O 10 (3) or Swedish F.P.O, G.P.O parcel tags for mailbags sent to the Movement Control Officer at Calais (probably for the Saar force) or from the Saar force, etc. (17).