AFRICAN AUXILLIARY PIONEER CORPS, MIDDLE EAST.

[Ross Debenham]

Totally agree Nick.

[Marc Parren]

I had a look at the cover addressed to Kribi as I used to live in that coastal town myself in the 1990s. It looks like Mr. Evere Hermann Romain could have been a local although I do not recognise the family name. But people in Cameroon sometimes still have German first names like this one with Hermann. Messrs John Holt & Co. was a British trading company trading in such goods as cocoa, cotton lint and groundnuts, alongside the traditional trade in palm oil and rubber across the West African coast. However, Pte Hope Nacooba will have come from the British Cameroons if not from Nigeria. The resealing label and censor marks are the usual ones applied in Douala