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GREAT BRITAIN British Military Mission in Siberia continued...

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5261

1921 (26 Feb) cover endorsed "On Active Service", sent from Kobe Japan to West Quaco, New Brunswick, Canada, sender's "British Mission Vladivostok" docketing at bottom, with transit and arrival pmks on back. After departure of the British Military Mission, a small number of personnel remained in Vladivostok to perform relief and intelligence functions. These personnel were attached to the British (Diplomatic) Mission and were forced to rely on the diplomatic bag or civilian postal arrangements. The sender, Sgt.Brown, was the Secretary of the Canadian Red Cross, attached to the British Mission (Image)

Current Opening Price...$700.00
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GREAT BRITAIN British Intervention in North Russia

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5262

1919 (6 Mar) 2p registered letter to Cambridge, canceled "Army Post Office P.B.1", with corresponding Registry label, violet "X11" censor and London arrival (16 Mar) datestamp (Postage was not required for cards and letters up to 4 oz within the theatre and the British Empire, but the Registry fee (2 pence minimum) had to be paid. Registered covers from the North Russia Campaign are quite scarce, less than 10 (!) recorded (Image)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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5263

1919 (16 May) cover to England, franked with 1p-10p George V, seven different, tied by "Army Post Office P.B.2" cds, with corresponding Registry label, violet "X20" censor mark, fine and attractive (Image)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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5264

1919 (30 Aug) cover addressed to Klivy, Minsk province (then under Polish Occupation), franked on back with single 50k Coat of Arms, tied by Archangelsk departure cds, "Opened by Censor/Base Censor No.1" British label, also with Polish censor handstamp, signed Mikulski (Image) (image 5264a)

Current Opening Price...$230.00
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5265

1919 (20 Sep) Field Service Post Card to England, Army Post Office P.B.2 departure and violet "Passed by Censor No.35R" hs alongside, fine. Fieldpost cards were not supposed to be censored, this card may be the only recorded exception (Image)

Current Opening Price...$230.00
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5266

1919 (23 Sep) "On Active Service" Russian 5k stationery card with the additional 15k franking, canceled "Army Post Office P.B.2", sent from Archangel to England, with violet "Passed by Censor No.35R" hs. Also included is 5sh Seahorse, sheet margin single canceled on piece by "APO PB 12 Sp 18, 19" cds, with censor hs alongside, fine (Image)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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5267

1919 Travelling Post Office (12 July) YMCA corner card cacheted cover endorsed "Officer's Mail", sent by U.S.Capt. Montgomery (with the American North Expeditionary Corps) to his wife in Minneapolis, with "Army T.P.O. No.1 / N.R.E.F." pmks, violet "Passed as Censored" handstamp at bottom, fine. In October 1918, the British Intervention Forces in North Russia found a functioning railway car and used it to carry mail on a weekly basis between Murmansk and Soroka. When the Transportation Corps arrived in April 1919, a special TPO postmark was supplied to be used on mail processed on the train. Only five (!) examples of this cancel have been recorded (Image)

Current Opening Price...$900.00
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5268

1919 (2 July) Registered 2p stationery entire envelope addressed to Montreal, with corresponding Registry label, two strikes of "P.B.33" (located in Pechenga (a small town in Murmansk oblast, Northwestern European Russia), red London transits and Montreal (9 Aug) arrival pmk, censor label at right, fine. Registered mail from the North Russia campaign is seldom encountered, especially from the P.B.2 (Archangel) post offices (Image)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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5269

1919 incoming mail, card and two covers to the British Expeditionary Force in Russia, one from France, addressed to Brig.General F.W.H.Walshe HQ Archangel, others from England and India, the latter marked on back "Evacuated U.K.", with "Army Post Office P.B.2" and other markings, fine. Incoming mail to N.R.E.F. are scarce (General Walshe served with Denikin and Wrangel during the Russian Civil War and was Aide-de-camp to King George V, between 1920 and 1928) (Image)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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5270

1919 two "On His Majesty's Service" covers, one addressed to Officer of Records N.R.E.F. Archangel, with "Royal Army Service Corps" hs, "Field Post Office P.B.55" (located at Beresnik), Passed by Censor No.30R, with Army Post Office P.B.2 (Archangel) arrival pmk on back. The other cover is addressed to London, bears Army Post Office P.B.66 (located at Oberzerskaya), censored "X20" (Image)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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5271

Naval and Maritime Mail. 1919 (Hospital Ship Mail) card to Scotland, mailed from North Russia and carried on "H.M.H.S. Garth Castle", also cover from Durban to North Russia, with 1p franking, carried on "H.M.H.S. Braemar Castle", with Bombay transits and "Address Unknown Return to Sender" markings, fine examples of usages from the Royal Army Medical Corps specially equipped ships at base hospitals in North Russia (Image)

Current Opening Price...$280.00
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GREAT BRITAIN British Intervention in South Russia

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5272

1919-23 incoming mail, three covers to South Russia, one from "Kotah Agency", India to "British Army of the Black Sea" at Batum (cover mending), the others from England to "British Military Mission General Denikin's Army" and "British Mission Tiflis", last two with "Present Location Uncertain" and "Inconnu" handstamps, one with "Died in Hospital" in red ink, last one with Moscow transit pmk, scarce group of incoming covers to British Troops in Batum, South Russia and Tiflis (Image)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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5273

Naval and Maritime Mail. 1919 "On His Majesty's Service" envelope addressed to Mr. Mackinder, M.P., British High Commissioner, South Russia, showing his penciled "Received JJMackinder" signature, handstamped "H.M.S. Marlborough" on back (Sir Halford John Mackinder was the British High Commissioner in Southern Russia in late 1919 and early 1920 and stressed the need for Britain to continue her support to the White Russian forces, which he attempted to unite) ("HMS Marlborough", a British warship arrived in Yalta on April 7, 1919 under orders of the British Royal Navy to evacuate Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, sister of Queen Alexandra, and members of the Russian Imperial Family) (Image)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in the Turkish Empire

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5274

Military Mail. 1915-16 British Forces in Dardanelles (Gallipoli), small exhibit, eight covers or cards showing "Field Post Office 88" card from Cape Helles, two "On Active Service" covers sent by members of the First Newfoundland Regiment to St. John's, ANZAC forces, home-made envelope from Gallipoli to England, cover and card from the Australian Forces, one to South Australia, the other to Egypt, with "Lt.Col. O.C. No.5 Field Ambulance" handstamp, also two inbound covers addressed to "British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force", with "Killed in Action", "Unable to Trace" and "Present Location Uncertain" markings, scarce group (the equivalent of 16 British, Australian, New Zealand, Indian and French divisions took part in the Gallipoli campaign. British Commonwealth casualties were 213,980. The campaign failed to produce decisive results because of poor military leadership, faulty tactics, inexperience of the troops and inadequate equipment) (Image) (image 5274a) (image 5274b) (image 5274c) (image 5274d)

Current Opening Price...$2,300.00
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GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in China

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5275

1900-01 China Expeditionary Force, balance of a collection, 10 covers or cards on pages, India stamps overprinted "C.E.F.", variety of Field Post markings, cover carried from Peking to Newchwang, franked with OHMS overprinted stamps, Hong Kong Civil Post, card locally addressed to Chief Medical officer, cover from 28th Madras Infantry to London, etc. (Image) (image 5275a) (image 5275b) (image 5275c) (image 5275d) (image 5275e)

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Current Opening Price...$450.00
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BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AUSTRALIA

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5276

1921 (11 Jan) registered cover from Randwick Military Hospital (Sydney), routed "Via Batoum" to Sir Andrew Fisher, M.D. in Tiflis, Georgia, short-paid with a single 6p Kangaroo (small faults) (UPU rate was 4p postage and 3p Registration), handstamped "Registered Service Suspended" and "Undelivered for Reason Stated", London transit and with arrival back in Australia (2 March 1921), interesting usage from Australia to Georgia during the Russian Civil War (Image)

Current Opening Price...$180.00
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BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AUSTRALIAN FORCES IN CHINA -

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5277

1900 collection of 14 covers or cards displayed on 13 exhibit pages, with a cover from FPO 4 (Tientsin), with C.E.F. franking, addressed to a Staff Surgeon Nickson in Newcastle, paying 1p concessionary rate to NSW military personnel, cover from FPO 1 (Peking Legation Gate), with 1a C.E.F. franking, addressed to Sydney, with "New South Wales Naval Contingent in China" handstamp (the only recorded (!) example), Chinese 1c stationery card with C.E.F. and 1c and 2c Coiling Dragons franking, sent from FPO 1 (Peking Legation Gate), via Hong Kong to New South Wales, Naval Contingent mail, three covers with "N.S.W. Naval Contingent" cachet, sent from FPO 7 (Tartar City) and FPO 1 (Legation Gate) to Sydney; C.E.F. 1/2a stationery entire envelope with additional 1/2a franking, sent to a Naval Officer in Newcastle, Concessionary rate not recognized and "3d" Postage Due assessed on arrival in NSW (this is the only recorded example of Postage Due charged on Naval Contingent mail); also incoming mail, two covers (one quite fragile, missing some of the coverback) addressed to Contingent members in Peking (only two covers and two coverfronts recorded). In addition, there is a cover from South Australia inbound to "H.M.C.S. Protector" at Hong Kong (the only recorded example of mail related to South Australian participation in suppressing the Boxer uprising), two covers from FPO 4 and Base Office B (both at Tientsin), sent by members of the Victorian Naval Contingent (only eight such covers recorded). An important collection, usual condition, extremely rare (as part of the British contribution to putting down the Boxer uprising, the Australian Colonies sent a number of expeditionary forces to China. At the time, the majority of Australian forces were engaged in the Boer War in South Africa so Naval contingents from three Australian states (South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria), including reservists and ex-navy personnel, were sent to offer support through coastal defense. The first Australian contingents, mostly from New South Wales and Victoria, sailed in August 1900. Australian personnel sent to northern China arrived too late to be engaged in combat. Six Australians died of sickness and injury and none were killed as a result of enemy action) (Image) (image 5277a) (image 5277b) (image 5277c) (image 5277d) (image 5277e) (image 5277f) (image 5277g) (image 5277h) (image 5277i) (image 5277j) (image 5277k) (image 5277l)

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Current Opening Price...$7,000.00
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BRITISH COMMONWEALTH BATUM

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5278

1919 (9 July) Registered 2p stationery entire envelope addressed to London, with corresponding blank-type Registry label, two strikes of "Army Post Office SX 22" (located in Batum), octagonally framed "Passed by Censor 372", with red arrival pmk, fine (Image)

Current Opening Price...$230.00
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BRITISH COMMONWEALTH BRUNEI

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5279

1946 registered cover to England, franked with B.M.A. overprinted North Borneo and Sarawak stamps, with Brunei Registry handstamp, Singapore transit pmk on back, fine and rare mixed franking combination usage (Image)

Current Opening Price...$230.00
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BRITISH COMMONWEALTH Canadian Expeditionary Force

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5280

1918 (4 Dec) cover mailed aboard "RMS Monteagle", with letter headed "Canadian Pacific Railway Co. R.M.S. Monteagle" explaining that the writer is posting letter on ship to speed delivery, cover franked with 3x1c green, canceled Vancouver (Jan 22, 1919), handstamped "Passed by Censor 001", with Martins, New Brunswick Jan 30, 19 arrival pmk on back, ex-Brown correspondence, earliest recorded Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force censored cover (Image)

Current Opening Price...$140.00
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