THE LT HUGH B ROBINSON P.O.W. ARCHIVE: 1940-45 collection of letters, notebooks, maps, etc. 2nd./Lt Robinson, Northamptonshire Reg. arrived in France 11 May 1940 and was captured at Totdes 10 June 1940 eventually being released from being a POW at OFLAG VIB, 1,770 days later on 15 April 1945. The correspondence (17 env. & contents or POW Letter Cards) is from his mother and to three different Oflags. There is also a letter from Rolex, Geneva (May 1943) acknowledging the order of a Perpetual Oyster watch at Swiss Fr325 to be paid at the end of the war. Included is a photograph of Robinson in uniform, three Exercise Books with diary notes, etc. by Robinson over 174 pages, a hand drawn map, overlays of paths(?) plus two POW Camp money coupons. (Note: Using this archive, Gavin wrote his final book, "Hugh Robinson - A Prisoner of War Story 1939 to 1945" which is available from The Rossiter Trust) Cross Reference: PRISONS & PRISONERS, MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL (Image)

G.B. INTERNMENT/REFUGEE CAMPS: 1939-44 with Sep. 1941 Letter Card airmail Camp L (IOM) via Liverpool Censor to Tryon, N Carolina with OPENED BY / EXAMINER 6721 label, 16 days to Chicago for onward routing; Jan. 1943 env. airmail via Liverpool to New York with Examiner 5707 label and v.fine and uncommon purple LETTER SENT WITH / SPECIAL PERMISSION / OF / COMMANDER / P / INTERNMENT CAMP (signature) [IOM] and REBUT in circle hs; 1941 env. to Swiss Consulate Manchester with v.fine purple oval RACECOURSE ALIENS CAMP / 003 / 1 MAY 1941 / YORK hs; 1939 env. London to Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent a Jewish refugee camp; Sep. 1944 env. registered to Olney franked with KGVI 5d + ½d tied with THE CAMP ST ALBANS cds; 1942 env. Glasgow to "House 37, P Camp" (IOM) via Censor at Liverpool with fine purple HEADQUARTERS POST OFFICE / [date] / INTERN CAMPS DOUGLAS IOM hs, etc. (7 items) Cross Reference: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA, ISLE OF MAN POSTAL HISTORY (Image)

THE WARSAW GHETTO, LUBLIN & BELSEN: 1941-46 trio with May 1941 PC Warsaw to Rowne (now Rivne, Ukraine) censored in Berlin with large red circled Ab hs plus at top left small red boxed JUDENRAT / WARSCHAU hs of the Jewish Council in Warsaw; Jan. 1944 parcel receipt PC Konzentrationslager Waffen SS Lublin local to Lublin with red Polish Red Cross hs, etc. and 1946 env. American Joint Distribution Comm. (an American Welfare unit at Belsen) to Paris with KGVI 3d lilac tied by FPO 504 cds. (3 items) Cross Reference: POLAND, GERMANY (Image)

BRITISH HONDURAS - JEWISH ILLEGAL REFUGEES INTERNMENT: 15 Feb. 1943 env. Cardiff to Belize franked with two KGVI 1/- paying the Airmail rate via New York arriving Belize 9 Mar. 1943. 81 Jewish illegal refugees were interned in Belize and this is addressed to what is believed to be an "address of convenience" to reach these internees. Scarce.Cross Reference: BRITISH HONDURAS/BELIZE, WELSH POSTAL HISTORY (Image)

VICHY FRANCE - INTERNMENT CAMP DE GURS INC. THE MENDLES CORRESPONDENCE: 1940-46 with Aug. 1941 env. registered airmail to New York with Registration label stamped CAMP DE GURS with British Examiner tape, US Return to Sender "hand", CANNOT BE FOUND, HELD BY BRITISH / CENSOR hs's etc; Apr. 1942 env. registered from Camp de Gurs to Red Cross Geneva; 1942 PC London to Camp de Gurs, Bas Pyrenees with British and Camp de Gurs censor hs with Return to Sender hs, etc.; 1940 PC Juan les Pins to Elfriede Mendles, Baraque 20, Ilot K, Camp de Gurs where she was held as a Jewish internee; 1941-46 series of Red Cross forms (16) with correspondence either to or from Mendles during and after her detainment. (22 items) Cross Reference: FRANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SWITZERLAND (Image)

MAILS FROM P.O.W.s IN EUROPE: 1939-45 selection inc. Sep. 1939 Polish 15Gr PC from a German soldier, FELDPOST 16135 to Wilhelmshaven; Dec. 1939 POW Letter Card sent by a Pole from Stalag VIIIB to Doleu; 1944 Italian Red Cross POW PC from Bergamo to an Italian soldier in a Camp at Kaisersteinbruch with green boxed STALAG /231 / XVIIA / GEPRUFT hs, etc.; two 1944 acknowledgement PC from a POW at Stalag 357, Slawuta, Ukraine to Durham Miners Association with fine, different, purple illus. Stalag 357 hs; 1944 POW Letter Card from Polish POW Oflag VIIA, Milnau to Lausanne; Dec. 1945 POW Post Letter Card "Written in German" from POW Camp 17 (Lodge Moor Camp at Sheffield) to Quilmes, Argentina, etc. (31 items) Cross Reference: GERMANY, ITALY, ARGENTINA, SWITZERLAND (Image)

MAILS TO P.O.W.s/INTERNEES IN HONG KONG, JAPAN, KOREA, JAVA, ETC.: 1944-45 with May 1944 POW Post PC Sherborne Dorset to Stanley Camp, Hong Kong with GB Censor hs and Japanese purple receiving chop; 1944 POW Post PC Airdrie to Tokyo No. 1 Det. Camp with GB Censor and various Japanese marks; Jan. 1945 POW Post PC Manchester to Gunner Bagley, Hakodate Camp, Japan advising him "Doris married ... she's no good ... forget her"!; May 1945 POW PC Shipley to Furyo Shuyosho, Dai 9 Bunsho, Japan with GB Censor and Japanese receiving chops; 1944 POW Post PC Dundee to Jinsen Camp, Korea with two Japanese chops; Feb. 1945 POW PC Weston super Mare to Camp X. 11047, Java with three Japanese chops; Oct. 1945 London (Official Paid) to A.L.F. Manilla, Philippines with four line purple IT IS REGRETTED THIS LETTER... CONNECT WITH SHIP ... ON WHICH ADDRESSEE WAS REPATRIATED hs & ms "Embarked on H.M.S. Glory", etc. (13 items) Cross Reference: JAPAN, HONG KONG, MALAYA/MALAYSIA, PHILIPPINES (Image)