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Japan WWII Prisoner of War & Internee Mail continued...

Camps in Malaya - Singapore continued...
LotNo. Symbol Lot Description Estimate in AU$'s
1381 PSE imageCHANGI PRISON: 1945 (Mar 20) formular Japanese postal card with small '5' handstamp in violet at upper-left indicating Camp #5 at the Jail, Japanese censor & han of Nakajima & British censor all in violet. (Image1) (Image2)

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Get Market Data for [Japan 5 at the Jail] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1382 PSE imageCHANGI PRISON: 1945 (Aug 12) British 1½d red-brown POW Airmail Postal Card to Camp "No 5", which was the Prison, boxed 'UNDELIVERED FOR REASON STATED/...' and 'RETURNED IN UNDELIVERED MAILS/FROM TERRITORY FORMERLY OCCUPIED/BY JAPANESE FORCES' both in violet, minor bends. Japan surrendered 15.8.1945 & it is unlikely this card actually left England. See also Lot 1407. (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1383 PSE imageCHANGI PRISON: 1945 (Aug 24) irregular usage of British 'FORCES/LETTER' 1½d aerogramme to "No 1 Civilian Camp/Malaya" with Bristol Victory Bells slogan, apparently delivered well after the Japanese surrender because there is no indication of it being returned to sender, central vertical fold. (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1384 PSE imageREPATRIATION MAIL: 1945 (Sep 23) use of Australian Forces formular airletter with lengthy message headed "Changi Gaol", to London with largely fine strike of the rare 'AUST FIELD PO/23SE45/250.' cds (the '2' in '23' is inverted) in violet used only at Singapore. Unrecorded by Ted Proud who states "Held at Singapore 15.9.45 to 27.11.45, not used?". Writer states "...We have been disappointed on a number of occasions...we appear to be completely forgotten...as regards the war we know very little of what has been going on..." (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$1,300.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1385 c imageREPATRIATION MAIL: 1945 (Oct 3) usage of Australian Red Cross lettersheet to the Midlands with lengthy message headed "HMS Cilicia/Singapore" & written aboard the ship in harbour "the pens are a bit duff on this tub", British 'POST/OFFICE - MARITIME/MAIL' machine in red, minor soiling. Message states "...at last I am on my way home...I got my first medal a couple of days ago...more to come so I shall probably look like Goering, only not so fat..." (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$420.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1386 c imageREPATRIATION MAIL: 1945 (late) stampless cover endorsed "Liberated Civilian", from Australia to a medical doctor in Singapore (arrival backstamp of 10JA/1946) but returned to Australia with indication that he had been repatriated aboard HMAS 'Karoa', at Sydney redirected to the Crown Agents for the Colonies in London with Hermes 1/6d tied to the reverse by Sydney parcel roller of 23.2.1946, and finally forwarded to Middlesex with London machine of 29MCH/1946. (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$1,050.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1387 PSE imageSIME ROAD CAMP: 1943 (circa) Australian Red Cross POW envelope with Three Thick Red Lines at the Base, censored at Melbourne, no Japanese markings but endorsed "Sime Rd". (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1388 PSE imageSIME ROAD CAMP: 1943 (Jan 28) Australian blue/white POW lettersheet to "Malaya Camp" with 'ELLISTON/SA' cds & censored at Melbourne, unusual Japanese circular cachet in violet. Lindsay Chitty states that only five such lettersheets to Malaya have been recorded. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1389 c imageSIME ROAD CAMP: 1945 (Aug 27) plain blue-green card with message headed "Sime Road Camp", to Hertfordshire with British 'POST/OFFICE - MARITIME/MAIL' machine in red on the reverse. Message states "...am fit & well tho weight 117lbs [from] 168lbs due to deliberate undersupply food..." (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1390 D imageSURRENDER OF THE JAPANESE: 1945 (Sep 12) presentation document (252x345mm) to The Honourable ECH Charlwood acknowledging his presence at the official surrender ceremony at Singapore with facsimile signatures of (Admiral) "Louis Mountbatten", (American Major-General) "RA Wheeler", (Admiral) "Arthur J Power", (General) "WJ Slim" and (Air Chief Marshall) "KR Park", minor aging on the reverse & light folds otherwise very fine. An attractive memento of this auspicious occasion. Charlwood was a prominent Singapore businessman; Lord Mountbatten was later the last Viceroy of India; Viscount Slim served as Governor-General of Australia 1953-59. (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$1,350.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
Camps in Manchuria
LotNo. Symbol Lot Description Estimate in AU$'s
1391 c imageANSHAN CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMP: 1942 (June 1) registered airmail cover from Cuba (!) to an American ".../Formerly of Dairen, South Manchuria/American Internee in Japan" care of the Red Cross in Switzerland, the reverse with datestamps of 'MIAMI, FLA/JUN/2/1942/REGISTERED', New York 3.6 & 9.6 and Geneva 1.VIII.42, censored in America & again at Bermuda, pencilled "ICM" believed to mean "Interned Civilian Manchuria" in pencil. An extraordinary origin/destination item. Ex David Tett, and illustrated by him in Volume 6 at page 190. Charles Biddle was a British missionary. From Moukden, he was transferred to Kobe, and was a passenger on the first passenger exchange per the 'Asama Maru' & 'Gripsholm'. (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$600

SOLD for AU$675.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1392 c imageHOTEN CAMP: 1942 (Dec 10) airmail cover from England with KGVI 5d tied by 'POST EARLY/FOR/ CHRISTMAS' slogan of Rochdale, to "Camp Keijo, Chosen" (= Korea), redirected with "H"-in-circle for Hoten, Japanese 'CENSORED' cachet unusually in English with very fine han of Murata. A marvellous item for the Christmas collector. [Hoten was the principal camp at Mukden] (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1393 c imageHOTEN CAMP: 1943 (Sep 5) plain postcard from Suffolk to a Brigadier at "Camp Taiwan/Formosa" with British censor in rosine, small boxed Japanese censor in black & han of Yoshikawa in scarlet, Kanji redirection to Manchukuo where censor in violet & han of Murata in scarlet applied, unusually fine. [From his wife, who signs off as "Bubbles"] (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1394 PSE imageHOTEN CAMP: 1944 (Aug 15) usage of Chinese 1c Sun Yat-sen Postal Card uprated with $1 dull green tied by bilingual '.../MINHOW/(FOOCHOW)' cds, from a woman with the Church Missionary Society at Foochow to a British POW at "Mukden/Manchuria/North China", manuscript censor in rosine, boxed censor in violet & han of Murata in scarlet, light bends & minor water-staining on the reverse. Not recorded by David Tett and stated by Lindsay Chitty to be the only recorded item from China to a POW in Manchuria. (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$1,000

SOLD for AU$750.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1395 c imageHOTEN CAMP: 1945 (early) plain pink postcard with huge boxed 'Service des Prisonniers de Guerre' cachet & large censor both in violet & han of Hayashi in scarlet, from a British POW to Shropshire, British censor in rosine, light central vertical fold & bumped corners. Letter states "...am keeping in touch with the trade through a few books which the YMCA have sent us/.../Hoten, Manchoukuo [sic]". Stamp trade? Only about 400 British servicemen were held in Manchuria. (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1396 c/D imageHOTEN CAMP: 1945 (Aug 19) cover from a British Sergeant endorsed at top "Hoten War Prisoners Camp/ Hoten Manchuria", to Shropshire with US 5c Prexie tied by 'US ARMY/ 827 /AU30/1945/POSTAL SERVICE' machine, clear US censor tape & very fine cachet, very minor spotting. See David Tett Volume 6 at pages 351-2, where he states "perhaps the [earliest] cover known to be written from the camps after liberation". The lengthy enclosed letter is full of both anguish & delight: "...I find myself brimming over with joy and happiness to have been delivered...from this veritable hell upon earth...[Our] senior officers are once again in charge...I will not taint this first letter with mention of sufferings, atrocities etc....the Japanese have always used [withholding] our mail as an instrument of mental torture...I received the majority of my mail after the surrender...This letter is leaving by the first American plane...maybe tomorrow...Russians expected to arrive here hourly!"  (2 items) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

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Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$1,150.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1397 D imageHOTEN CAMP: Undated pale green/buff 'IMPERIAL JAPANESE TELEGRAM' from Red Cross in Geneva to a British soldier at "Mukden Camp", Mukden arrival cds of 20.5.8 (8.5.1945), censor in violet & han of Murata in scarlet plus '.../82' cachet of unknown purpose in rosine, minor blemishes, characteristic folds. The Japanese had provided an undertaking to deliver Red Cross telegrams. However, especially this late in the war, relatively few were delivered, especially outside of Japan. (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1398 c imageMUKDEN CAMP: 1943 (Aug 23) airmail cover from Washington State to "Hoten Camp/Mukden Manchuria" & endorsed at lower-left "co ss Gripsholm", stamp removed by Japanese censor with cachets in rosine & violet and very fine han of Murata in scarlet, a bit soiled. Illustrated by David Tett in Volume 6 at page 184. Per the second exchange voyage by the 'Gripsholm' ex New York 2.9.1943; arrived Marmagao, Portuguese India 16.10.1943; then per 'Teia Maru' to Singapore. (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$230.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
Camps in Netherlands Indies - Java
LotNo. Symbol Lot Description Estimate in AU$'s
1399 cPSE imageRepatriation of Sgt RS (Buddie) Hubbard group comprising 1945 (Aug 22) British 1½d red-brown POW Forces Letter to "Java Y Camp" with pencilled "Rec/21st Sep 1945"; (Sep 14) letter home on plain blue paper sent without a cover & with no postal markings but endorsed "Recd 28th Sept 1945/Firrst news since Dec 1943" in which he states "...We have had some Officers in the camp who were dropped by parachute...food has improved 100%...I find it very difficult to write much..."; (Sep 14) Forces Letter pencilled "Cilicia" indicating the ship on which he was to be repatriated and "Rec 25.10.45" (after his return to England); (Sep 17-23) three Indian-pattern Forces Air Letters home from Batavia "...with the new uniform although it is Jap stuff we do not look the same men...A conference has been held in this Cycle Camp to discuss swimming home, but it was turned down...We are allowed four of these letters a week..."; and the last headed "MV Cilicia/Red Sea" and posted in Egypt 19.10; condition variable.  (7 items) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

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Get Market Data for [Japan t RS (Buddie] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$440.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM
1400 D imageAllied air-drop leaflet (110x140mm) in Japanese with brief English translation advising Japanese troops of the surrender, requiring them to treat their prisoners "with every care & attention", and to stay in their barracks, light central fold; and similar (150x220mm) to Allied POWs in English and, on the reverse, in Malay & Anglicised Japanese, three folds & minor wear. Both illustrated by David Tett in Volume 2 at pages 355-6. From the captions, it is obvious Tett had not seen the actual leaflets. He illustrates both sides of the first as if they were different articles. For the second, he doesn't record the translations on the reverse.  (2 items) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

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Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$2,200.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM

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