Another 'first day cover'

[Nick Colley]

Frank's posting the other day reminded me that I have this in my collection. Took a while to find it, but it was hiding in plain sight ....

Anyway: it's from Sub-Lt M.G.Chichester, RN (although he was promoted to Lieutenant wef 1st September 1939), aboard the destroyer HMS Imogen, 3DF, Western Approaches. She was lost 16th July 1940 after collision with the cruiser HMS Glasgow in fog in the Pentland Firth. He survived the incident and was posted to HMS Seaborn, wef 9th September 1940. This was the Fleet Air Arm station at a Canadian air base at Dartmouth in Nova Scotia.

He appears to have overlooked the censorship requirement and he has had to open and re-seal his own letter – see the second image for the reverse.

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