Dear Frank.

From: "Intervention at Archangel" by Leonid I Strakhovsky (1971) page 43:

"... the British command opened at Bakaritsa on the left bank of the North Dvina river opposite Archangel a school for officers...".

Attached part of map from: "The Midnight War" by Richard Goldhurst (1978).

Regards
Per Ronberg

Item 8 & 9:
Boy Bugler PO/X 4687 Kenneth James Davies (2.7.1924-24.5.1941) Royal Marines

Post Office Telegram: Cosham Portsmouth Hants. 26.5.1941 - O.H.M.S.
"Deeply regret to report your son POX 4687 Boy Bugler Kenneth Davies is missing presumed killed on War Service. Marines Portsmouth".

and letter dated 30.5.1941.

Best Regards
Per Rønberg

Cover 7:
Able Seaman P/J 91188 Thomas Walter William Eyres (14.5.1902-24.5.1941)
Southampton 23.5.1941. [i]Returned to sender. It is with deepest regret you are
informed that the addressee ([s]has died on active service[/s]) / (is missing presumed killed) (Signed).........
[/i]

Cover 6:
Boy Bugler PO/X 4687 Kenneth James Davies (2.7.1924-24.5.1941) Royal Marines
RECEIVED FROM H.M.SHIPS – 19.5.1941

Cover 5:
Able Seaman P/J 45098 Thomas Edward Craft (30.11.1899-24.5.1941)
RECEIVED FROM H.M.SHIPS From H.M.Ship / Passed by Censor (18.3.1941)
Censoring officer: Chaplain Robert James Patrick Stewart (R.J.P.S.)

Cover 4:
Commander (Instructor) Douglas Merson Steel (5.4.1897-24.5.1941)
Edinburgh E/Received from H.M.Ships 12.12.1939 PASSED BY CENSOR. / H.M.S. HOOD

Cover 2:
Ordinary Seaman P/JX 159180 Leonard Frank Griffiths (26.1.1923-24.5.1941)
London/Received from H.M.Ships 11.9.1939 PASSED BY CENSOR. / H.M.S. HOOD

Cover 3:
Ordinary Seaman P/JX 159180 Leonard Frank Griffiths (26.1.1923-24.5.1941)
Edinburgh E/Received from H.M.Ships 12.12.1939 PASSED BY CENSOR. / H.M.S. HOOD

Hi Stewart.

Attached this and the next message are scans of the HMS Hood covers in my collection.

Cover 1:
Preprinted H.M.S. Hood envelope
Steward P/LX 25538 John Sebastian Sharp (25.12.1918-24.5.1941)
Edinburgh 24.10.1939 PASSED CENSOR / H.M.S. HOOD

Dear friends.
The small OPENED BY MILITARY CENSOR marking was used by the local military censorship on the Faroe Islands. It is mainly recorded on mail from the most westerly of the large islands: Vágar or Vágoy (Vaagø in Danish), tied by a rural "removed star" cancellations of SØRVAAG (= Sørvágur in Faroese), MIDVAAG (= Midvágur in Faroese) or SANDEVAAG (= Sandavágur in Faroese). The marking has also been recorded on mail from the westernmost small island of Mykines (= Myggenæs in Danish), here with a rural "removed star" cancellation MYGGENÆS. All letters have bridge type transit markings from THORSHAVN (app. 1942-1944).
During 1942-1943 the Royal Engineers build an airfield near Sørvaag – called RAF Vagar. This was possibly the reason for a local censorship of mail from the island – and the nearby isle of Mykines.
The censorship marking from Vagar is not rare – quite many covers is to be found in collections and on the marked – the price for a standard piece use to be app. £100. Not really an indication of rarity, because the markings are collected by many collectors of Faroe Island stamps or postal history and not only collectors of WW2 censorship.
So – no Norwegian connection on the "impossible" Danish cover.
Best Regards
Per Rønberg

Dear Alistair.

Thanks for the useful reply. The "enclosed in green honour envelope to base censor"-theory sounds likely.
It would be nice if anyone had input to locate the Base Censor to either Iceland or UK. And possibly give a time-frame of use.
My guess is summer 1940, as I have a cover from same sender dated June 7 1940.

Regards
Per

Dear Friends.

Attached a scan of an undated OAS cover with framed army unit censor type A1 no. 2152 (Recorded used on Iceland on covers from FPO 2 in Reykjavik) and a strange red WW1 censorship marking No. 2414 to Scotland.
Does anyone have information about the red army censorship marking? I haven't seen it before on mail connected to the British forces on Iceland.
Have seen it on a cover descripted as being send during transport on "Aquitania" in august 1940 - not that it help much.

Best Regards
Per Rønberg

Dear Friends.

Attached scans of a 3d Forces Air Mail cover tied by FPO 937 (= Steamers Point, Aden) on 13.2.1960 to Liverpool, England. Sender is Flt/Lt P. Hudson, RAF Riyan, BFPO 69 (= Aden).

The interesting part is the privately made provisional stamp with type written: [b] "RIYAN / E. A. P."  [/b]

I know the RAF Riyan was a small station near Mukalla in Quaiti State in Eastern Aden Protectorate and expect the letters "E.A.P." to be short for "Eastern Aden Protectorate".
Has anyone come across similar typewritten provisional issues from the RAF station?

Best Regards
Per Rønberg

Try this page: http://www.filateelia.ee/efur/articles/ebayforg.html

Regards
Per