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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2019

(x) South Africa
1915 South African Aviation Corps
1915 (6 June) envelope from Karibib "On Active Service" to Johannesburg, showing boxed "41" datestamp and framed bi-lingual "passed by censor" handstamp, both in blue, the reverse with "S.A.A.C./Z-68/C Flight". A rare cover associated with this early Aviation Corps. Photo

Note: The Royal African Aviation Corps came into being on the strength of Government Notice No. 130 dated 29 January 1915. Preparations were made in England to go to South West Africa in order to help the South African Forces in their onslaught on German South West Africa. By June 1915 General Louis Botha had the South African Aviation Corps in full working Order. Two B.E. 2C's and six all-steel Henri Farmans were used for aerial reconnaissance by the South African Government. The Corps went in to action for the first on 6 May 1915 over the area around Walfish Bay. Ref. "Pioneers of Early Aviation in South Africa" by Hannes Oberholzer

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