Cover for the 26th July Unknown Naval Censor ???

[Chris Grimshaw]

Team

This one has me puzzled, any notes I had with it are long gone.  Standard RFHMS ? no date , Received at Bromley, Kent 1 Mar 1915 and redirected to Sidmouth, where received 2 March 15. (Backstamp)

Passed By Censor in small Triangle. 8A 20 if I've measured correctly, shown as Prince George, Gould page 173

Assistance from our Naval colleagues appreciated.

Chris

[Tony Walker]

Yes Chris, I'm fairly certain you have HMS Prince George correctly

I have a nice PC of Gibraltar with an identical censor mark, dated by the writer 23.3.15 and by a London PAID machine cancel April ? 1915.  At this time the ship was shelling the Turkish defences in the Dardenelles, supported by the message which states  "Still keeping alright, had a little of their shell, sent plenty in return, so if we go to David Jones Locker we can say we had a better game than jack(?) had..."

Just moved house and upgraded to Windows 10 on the computer, have yet to master the scanning process, so no image I'm afraid.

Cheers
Tony

[Chris Grimshaw]

Thanks Tony

Good to hear from you, Trust the move went well.  "Enjoy" Windows 10.  Have you also upgraded to Office 10 or one of the later versions?

Chris

[John Cranmer]

Just a quick comment. 

Scanning in Win 10 should work straight "out of the box" it did for me.  Also in modern versions of Office, I am using 365, the dictation function works very well.  It seems strange speaking to a computer to start with but I can now "type" faster with less typos.  Although some manual correction is needed.