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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2020

(x) South Africa
1915 South African Aviation Corps
1915 (Oct.) postcard written from Brighton to Sergeant R. Hendrich "S.A.A.Corps" in Cape Town and bearing 1d., undelivered and endorsed "Not Castle" "Discharged from" followed by "south african aviation corps" handstamp in violet and "return Cape Town", 1915 (13 Nov. and 21 Nov.) postcards both showing "south african squadron/royal flying corps" oval datestamps in blue, the first with address and message unreadable and showing Cape Town Paquebot datestamp for 19 November, the second to Cape Town written from R.M.S. Saxon by a recruit en route to the U.K. and showing Cape Town Paquebot machine datestamps; some faults in places though a most unusual trio with the Royal Flying Corps oval datestamps considered very rare with only three examples believed recorded. Photo

Note: Selected South African pilots underwent their initial flight instruction at Compton-Paterson's Kimberley facility prior to further training and enrolment in the Royal Flying Corps. The items offered above give evidence to the further success of Major Allister Miller's recruiting tour for World War I airmen in South Africa and the participation of these men in the Royal Flying Corps' war in the air. After the successful termination of this campaign the South African pilots returned to service in the Royal Flying Corps

provenance:
Jeidel, June 1988 for first and last items


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