Allied troops, P.O.W. and workers in Great Britain during WW2.
Royal Naval censorship. Note the type of cachets used before the introduction of the 'tombstone' cachet.
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Royal Navy, Crested paper, covers, postcards, cigarette cards and Christmas cards.
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Today I continue with the Royal Navy using Christmas Cards, post cards, stamps and other ephemera to introduce the 'Battle of the Atlantic' which will commence tomorrow.
Just as a point of interest am I correct in stating that H.M.S. Exeter is shown in the Knysna Heads? I remember fifty years ago standing at the mouth of a cave high up on the rock face behind where the photographer would have been standing.
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The Battle for the Atlantic - the longest battle of World War II.
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I continue with the Canadian Navy's contribution with a little side tracking.
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The battle wasn't all 'just ships'. The Royal Air Force together with the Canadian & American Air Forces protected convoys and searched out submarines, for this they needed land bases. I start off with Iceland.
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The Royal Air Force (and the Fleet Air Arm) flew out from the British Isles over the Atlantic and the North Sea. Today a few covers from them and the military that protected the island bases.
An interesting point arises here as FPO 676 is attributed to Inverness but it is obvious from the contents of these covers from the Shetlands that they are processing covers from other R.A.F. stations.
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Today we are still way up north in Scotland, with the airmen who protected not only the Atlantic route to North America but our coasts and the North Sea through which German submarines entered the Atlantic.
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Still in the Scottish Isles.
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Still way up north in Scotland. There seemed to have been a lot of Canadians stationed up there perhaps because they were used to the cold. Please check the Faroe? cover - I am still looking for a proving cover!
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