Sorry guys as there is no cover and no defining postmark best leave it as standard as you suggest (not my bailiwick)

Thanks again for your input.

Tony

Does anyone have any info on the origin of this ?

The pm diameter is about 27mm and the text  runs over two lines between two lozenges/segments with vertical lines about 1/8 apart.
The material came from the same source as a previous query I had on some Seychelles items.

The picture of the cover

Nick,
I am also a member of the HPS of GB [Greece]
and have obtained the following response:-
The Greek Civil war started in 1946 but I would not be surprised if the British Forces were not already in Greece in late 1945. They have been instrumental in facing the communists.
Of course Palestine was under British rule/protection at the time and liaising with Greece in the effort would of course use the BFPO. The extra dimension of the Hellenic Air Force makes the cover very unusual.
It would be interesting to know to whom was the cover addressed to and perhaps who was the originator.

I have sent him pics of the cover in question plus pics of RAF covers from Athens almost a year earlier - you can see my confusion.

Thanks for all your help guys.

Tony

Managed to get pic of the stamps, scan not available hope this helps


Tony

Thanks Frank and Ross - will try.

Tony

Apologies Robert, got interrupted the other day, to continue:-
I have also put into the FPHS July auction [b]photocopies[/b] of the same welcoming newsletter - October 59 - for the incoming Royal Engineers 17 INDEPENDENT FIELD SQUADRON and the Mid Pacific News for this period.
If you check the R.E.'s web site you will find more information.
Best of luck

Robert,
Just seen your post.
I am a bit busy at the moment but I have recently put into auction an original newsletter for Operation Grapple on Christmas Island 1959 [with Channel Islands Postal Bid Sales], this was a Royal Engineers job.
I will try in a day or two to give you bit more info.

Regards
Tony Warren

Thanks Mike, will investigate further.

I have a RHAF cover from Gaza, Palestine addressed to Athens, dated 29/11/1945 bearing  FPO 154 cds (BFPO ).
I am aware that the Greeks would have been absorbed into the "greater" RAF along with many other nationalities. However, I had thought that with the Greeks and their air force being upto their armpits in the civil war with the communists for some time that they would have been released and returned home many months previously. 

APO 81, Seychelles WWII ?
I have two Seychelles stamps - SG 136 3c orange and SG138 9c grey-blue with the above postmark
They have clear cancels showing "APO 81" in the base of the circle. I was not aware of a military presence on the Seychelles during WW2.
On reading an article in the January 2017 Gibbons Monthly there was a paragraph relating to forces addresses and cancellations during WW2. This says the army used APO 890 cancellation on mail. However these two clearly show APO 81 with a date of 5 VIII 44.
Can anyone shed any light on this matter.The stamps are SG 136ab 3c orange and SG138ab 9c grey-blue. As both stamps show the same cancel I assume they both came from the same envelope, although not knowing the postal rates of the time I cannot be more accurate.

Capt. R. BROWN 1836?

I have in my possession an envelope addressed, by the above from Greenland, to a Major Edmonstone ##### (?) [possibly Major Edmundstone Alan & Co] at an address in Montreal, Canada dated 1836.

I did suspected that Capt. R.Brown was the same man that wrote about the Seals of Greenland  for the Royal Society.
But I was wrong.
The Royal Society and the RGS say not and the Canadians say have no records.
I am led to believe Major Edmundstone, Alan & Co is a company similar to the Hudson Bay Company

Capt. R.Brown does not appear on the British naval list of this period, so maybe a Merchant Navy Officer

I have a letter dated 6th December 1855(8?) from a ship in Plymouth Sound from a Naval Officer (Capt. ?) to his wife in Blackheath, his name is Alfred Beech.
Despite many attempts to trace him or his ship I have not got no further.
He does not appear on the Admiralty List nor can the people in Plymouth # find a trace of him [or a Capt.Luscombe he mentions] even as he writes " I shall see the Admiral and Commanding Officer at 9 tomorrow" about passengers and his time of sailing.
NB Please be aware that deciphering the handwriting can be difficult as spelling and grammar was not 100% at the time and I could have made mistakes e.g. it took a while to realise that "pallsenders" was in fact "passengers"
I can forward a copy of the original and my interpretation to anyone interested.
# They did confirm that the name and address in Blackheath was correct.
Can anyone help ?