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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2141

Prisoner or War Mail
Hong Kong
Post Liberation
1946 (15 Oct.) air letter "From B. Pengelly Liberated P.O.W. 'Empress of Australia'" to their daughter in Plymouth, written in Suez and bears a fine strike of "field post office/174" c.d.s. (16.10). The letter includes, " ... we should be home in a few days, 14 at the most I should say. I have just been issued with winter clothes quite good stuff, Dot is in the shed being fixed up now ...". Tett fig. 4-12-49

Sold for
HK$750