FPO752

[Alan Baker]

I am attaching a scan of a cover sent in 1946 to the mother of an old friend. It bears the franking FPO752

Can anyone tell me where this was located?[attach id=6590]Scan_20230217 (2).jpg[/attach]

[Nick Colley]

Presumably you've looked in Proud? In case you haven't, he puts it in the Middle East with EKD and LKD here of 12/4/46 and 7/6/46. He associates it with 179 Brigade. A cursory look on the interweb yields nothing useful for a 179 Brigade at this time.

I hope someone else can be more useful than that.

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[Michael Dobbs]

Register of returns shows it as follows:

4/8/1943 - 5 BAPO
14/4/1944 - FPO 10 - 10 Corps
1/2/1945 - FPO HTB 10 CMF
12/4/1946 - B.179

The National Archives War Diaries indicate that 179th Infantry Brigade was in Italy during 1946.

Mike

[Alan Baker]

Thanks all. We are endeavouring to establish who sent the letter.

I don't have any WWII reference books, only WWI. My copy of Proud from the latter period is so well used it is falling apart