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Auction: 14026 - Stamps and Covers of South East Asia including the Peter Cockburn Award Winning Collection of Straits Settlements and Malayan States Revenue Stamps
Lot: 1564

Borneo Prisoner of War Mail
Incoming Mail
1944 (27 Jan.) envelope from Somerset to Leading Aircraftsman E.G. Darch, Borneo Camp, marked "prisoner of war/service des prisonniers de guerre", showing despatch d.s. and British censor label at left, and violet arrival censor chop with red seal of Kubo; and 1945 (11 Jan.) GB 3d. "prisoner of war post/service des prisonniers de guerre" card from Wales to the same POW, showing red British censor h.s. but no Japanese censor as card probably received after surrender; both a little stained

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SG$420