Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2384
Prisoner or War Mail
Taiwan
Incoming Mail
From U.K.: 1944 (27 Jan.) stampless post card with printed Prisoner of War Post sent to Maurice Rooney from his mother in Norwich, with British censor handstamp "P.W. 3541" in rose-red, "1 Ei" in red crayon, Taiwan Prisoner of War censor handstamp with Tahara seal. Also two 1945 long letters sent to Maurice Rooney from Norfolk after he had been liberated, the first dated (23 Aug.) is a 1½d. Forces Letter sheet which includes the news of the death of his brother on the Burma-Thailand railway and is marked "248 AGH" (the Australian General Hospital), the second is a 2½d. franked envelope (with the original letter) dated (6 Nov.) sent c/o P.O. Box 211 London and is marked "Marine Shark" indicating that he had been repatriated on this U.S. ship which left Manila on 9th October 1945 bound for San Francisco. Tett fig. 5-7-19. (3 covers)
Sold for
HK$2,600