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by censormark
Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:47 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
Topic: Queenstown - which one?
Replies: 1
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Re: Queenstown - which one?

There is only one Queenstown listed in the PO Guide - the one in the south of Ireland.
by censormark
Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:29 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
Topic: Capt. T.A. Smye
Replies: 1
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Re: Capt. T.A. Smye

The Oct1918 Army List, at column 817b, lists Capt TA Smye as a temporary Assistant Commissary of Ordnance. The quarterly Army List of July 1918 shows him to be Thomas Arthur Smye, a Warrant Officer in receipt of a pension wef 12Jan1912, late Army Ordnance Corps. It seems therefore he was either reca...
by censormark
Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:04 pm
Forum: King George V
Topic: FPO query
Replies: 1
Views: 21113

Re: FPO query

FPO 26 was at Sarafand from 1 Oct36 until 10.Jan37 (it is not common) KLM flights between DEI and the Netherlands landed in Palestine on their normal route. They were not allowed to land at Cairo because the British Govt wished to protect the monopoly that IA had in serving Egypt on international ro...
by censormark
Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:00 pm
Forum: King George V
Topic: Postal rate? Need help!
Replies: 1
Views: 15807

Transfer from previous board: original post 26104

The letter rate for airmail to Argentina was five shillings per ounce from 4 October 1939 until 1947.
see Furfie M (2000) "British Civilan Postage Rates of the 20th Century" ISBN 0952220814
Graham Mark