Hello All,

I've come accross a few postcards apparently from a member of the Austrian troops in Beijing related to the Boxer rebellion. The guards used a postmark "Gesandtschafts Wachdetachement Peking". Does anyone have more information on this?

best regards, Peter

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Dear All,

see attached item, with a British PC22 censor label and FPHS A2 military censor handstamp, on a cover from Belfast to Dublin.

The PC22 was in use on civil press mail from Oct 39 - Nov 40 (according to Morenweiser CCSG book).

Does anyone have explanations?

best wishes, Peter

Hello

see attached item. seems to be from a military unit including censor mark. Does anyone have more information or any thoughts on this?

best wishes, Peter

Hello All

see attached item. Given that "Geopend" is a Dutch word, and given the item went from Amersfoort to The Hague (both within the Netherlands) I assume the censor label is from the Dutch Military. Can anyone confirm?

What makes me also wonder: why was this item censored? It should have taken a route far away from the Belgian border and the ongoing war. Anyone has an idea?

best wishes, Peter

Hello All, have found an interesting label on a cover to a US Army person in April 1945. Does anyone know more about this label and its function?
best wishes, Peter

Hello All

on the attached item there is a censor mark "CONTROLÉ / TOEZICHT". The first word is in French, the second word is in Dutch, both mean control or monitoring. Given this combination of languages I would place this mark to Belgian origin. Can anyone confirm that this is a Belgian mark? Perhaps even with a reference to an article or a book?

best wishes, Peter

Hello All

In a post from 2017 in this forum (https://www.forcespostalhistorysociety.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1062.msg4790#msg4790) I found a similar looking censor mark to the one on my cover. The postmark looks like "EGYPT / POSTAGE PREPAID"/47, 6 July 1941. Could anyone confirm this is a South African (Army?) censor mark? (nothing on the reverse side of the cover)

best wishes, Peter

Hello All

see attached cover with a heart-shaped censor mark "Passé C.P.C. 1". Sent August 1945 from Belgium to APO 758 of the US Army.

In newsletter 157, 158 and 160 this mark has been briefly discussed. It was suggested that C.P.C. stands for Canadian Postal Corps. Looking at my cover I can't see an obvious link to Canada (unless APO 758 was for Canadian troops?). But it seems all items known so far have a clear link to Belgium. Here is another example online: https://langbrief.de/artikel/ID_30811.jpg

Does someone have an idea or a different explanation?

best wishes, Peter

Hello All

Here is an item I recently found, sent from Japan to Vladivostok / Siberia in 1919. Does anyone know more about the censor mark? And do you know something about the American Red Cross in this area?

best wishes
Peter

Dear Experts,

I'm not clever enough to understand Kennedy and Crabb... cannot find the Field Post Office G.6 post mark. It is depicted in the Italy section, but I cannot find it in any listing. Could anyone help me to understand to which unit G.6 belongs to? (and maybe how to find this in Kennedy and Crabb?)

And does anyone have information on the allocation of the CM8 censor marks used on this cover? How could it be explained that there are two different censor marks?

best wishes, Peter

Hello All

does anyone have information about this type of censor mark and the FPO cancel? most likely by the New Zealand Forces? Seller mentioned Fiji?

best wishes, Peter

Hello All

Does anyone have more information on this censorship by "US Forces Santo Domingo" in Dominican Republic in WW1?

best wishes
Peter

Hello All

could anyone help with an identification of this circular censor mark "PASSED CENSOR / D"?

best wishes, Peter

Hello All

could anyone help with this (Canadian?) navy censor mark? who used it? around which time?

unfortunately no letter inside the cover, so no other clues.

best wishes, Peter

Hello All

I have here a nice cover from Haiti sent to Camp Lee, Virginia, from 1945. Apparently a military camp for training of Quartermasters in WW2. The censorship (Haiti und US) looks civil to me.

Question: Was there any incoming military censorship in the US at this time? or would the military censor accept the civil censor label?

best wishes, Peter

Hello All

Here is a cover with a Swiss (?) Military label. Not 100% sure it is actually censorship, but the text in French "A transmettre au Centre de contrôle" ("To be sent to the Control Centre") sounds at least a bit like it. Issued by 2nd Division. Sent to Faverge, around 20km south of Geneva. At this time part of Vichy France. Has anyone seen something like that before? Any comments?

(a cover from the same sender to the same receiver in October 1943 was censored by the German censorship in Lyon, without such a label)

best regards, Peter

Hello All

could anyone help with this US military censor mark?

(reverse side of cover is empty)

best wishes, Peter

Hello All

here is a cover addressed to Commander E.C. Rogers, U.S.S. Wyoming, in Sept 1941. Wikipedia just tells me that the ship became a training ship in Nov. 1941. Does anyone have information on E.C. Rogers?

best regards, Peter

Hello All

on the following item from March 1943 from the US to UK there are two handstamps new to me:
- Circular "Ministry of Aircraft Production - Personal Letter Section"
- "Technical Data / Unlimited License / U-N-103"

Can anyone comment on the background of these marks? Are they considered censor marks?

best wishes
Peter

Hello All
I've recently joined so please excuse if I ask something really stupid. My current main interest is censored mail from Salonika WW1. In particular, mail that bears censor marks from the Armée d'Orient. It turns out that in some cases there are items with an Armée d'Orient mark, tying a sealing label that looks like a British Army label, similar to the ones described by Firebrace. I was already in exchange with Chris Grimshaw about this, but now I'm wondering if other members do have similar looking items (actually any Armée d'Orient censored items) in their collections. I would be very interested in scans of front and back to expand my database on known items.

Attached is an example.

best regards, Peter