Julian Bagwell Pete Harvey Redford and Co Clerkenwell WW1 Tobacco - PDF document

Julian Bagwell

Pete Harvey

Redford and Co Clerkenwell WW1 Tobacco & Cigarettes APO S15 Stationary APO at Rouen FPO T7 7 th Div Train Western Front Earliest I have seen April 1915 – latest of these cards Nov 15.

Redford and Co Clerkenwell WW1 Tobacco & Cigarettes FPO 86 - 30 March 1916 – returned from Gallipoli to Western Front Somme Redford and Co Exmouth Street Clerkenwell Address on all correspondence

Redford and Co Clerkenwell WW1 Tobacco & Cigarettes 1 st Royal Munster Fusiliers 86 th Brigade (Mediterranean) 16 th M.A.C Motor Ambulance Convoy Formed 1915 in France by 569 Company ASC Some of the troops writing back to acknowledge receipt enclosed the parcel front

Redford and Co Clerkenwell WW1 Tobacco & Cigarettes Greece unknown location signed from: H. A. Boxall 75946 R.A.M.C FPO 80 – 19 MR 18 Proud records Stavros Greece – many letters are from Salonika whilst on leave

Redford and Co Clerkenwell WW1 Tobacco & Cigarettes From Mustapha Barracks Alexandria with Base Army Post Office Z December 16 Many writers also gave their home addresses this one in Paddington London. People would have gone into the Radford & Co Shops to pay for a parcel to be sent.

Redford and Co Clerkenwell WW1 Tobacco & Cigarettes Both cancelled machine Army Post Office 2 – used at the Base APO Rouen E.F.C. = Expeditionary Force Canteen

Redford and Co Clerkenwell WW1 Tobacco & Cigarettes (1916) No 7314 Pte H Wilson Scots Greys Paderborn Germany Royal Scots Greys (2 nd Dragoons) first action in France was in August 1914 following this Private Wilson was reported missing (WO 27 th Sept) then updated to POW list Mar 15

Redford and Co Clerkenwell WW1 Tobacco & Cigarettes (1916) Pte W Jeffery Munster Camp (In the WO Diary 2/19 as released POW Royal Warwickshire Regiment) 30 th April Today received your parcel of tobacco sent 21 st Mar. I do not know who gave this, please pass on my thanks

Michael Dobbs

Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) Two years after NATO was founded in 1949, the members of the Alliance realised that a military command structure was necessary to ensure greater integration of NATO forces and proper lines of command in the event of a crisis or war. As a result, in 1951 the first strategic command, Allied Command Europe (ACE), came into existence under the command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, US Army, who had the title of Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). His headquarters - Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) was established on 2 April 1951 in the Paris suburb of Rocquencourt in France. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, moved over from the Western Union Defence Organization (WUDO) to become the first Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Powers in Europe , who would serve until he relinquished his appointment, aged nearly 71, on 20 September 1958.

Karl Winkelmann

Mail from December 1943 M.V. Kerlogue rescue Kadett Rudi Schlicht was on of 168 German sailors rescued by the Irish registered 335 ton MV Kerlogue after the Battle of the Bay of Biscay during a 10 hours operation. They were on their way back from Portugal with a cargo of oranges for Ireland. Schlicht was hospitalized in Cork before being transferred to the Curragh Internment Camp. Square boxed red quadrilingual Military Internee certifying handstamp was applied at the Curragh so we know his letter, dated 7 January 1943, was forwarded there from the military hospital in Cork. The front has a red Irish military censor handstamp partially covered by the pink Irish civil censor label of censor #2 who was the assistant chief censor. A week after the rescue, the German ambassador to Ireland, Dr. Eduard Hempel, wrote to the Kerlogue's captain, Thomas Donohue, calling the 'exemplary deed worthy of the great tradition of Irish gallantry and humanity’ . He also sent a letter of thanks to the matron of the military hospital in Cork where the injured were cared for. See last page.

In 1941 the Kerlogue had rescued 12 British seaman and towed their ship the Wild Rose , that has been attacked by German bombers, to Rosslare Strand which avoided her sinking. In October 1943 the Kerlogue was attacked by British fighters despite her Irish flag and ÉIRE written large on the hull and deck. Surprisingly the British cargo of coal prevented the damage from allowing the water to sink the ship. For more information on this topic see these websites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Kerlogue - wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_torpedo_boat_T26 - wikipedia https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/30/a6848030.shtml - detailed account of the rescue https://thewildgeese.irish/profiles/blogs/mv-kerlogue-at-war-serving-neither-king-nor- fuehrer-but-humanity https://coastmonkey.ie/mv-kerlogue/ https://www.independent.ie/regionals/newrossstandard/lifestyle/chief-engineer-of-mv- kerlogue-to-receive-posthumous-bravery-medal-34334912.html - Posthumous award http://irishships.com/story_of_the_kerlogue.html another account https://soundcloud.com/lorcanclancy/mv-kerlogue RTÉ Radio MV Kerlogue - The History Show

Ingo Egerlandt

Nick Colley

An air mail letter card from Corsica (FPO 660, Bastia) in April 1944. It is datelined from Naval Party 1013. This is not included in the list of naval parties to be found on the internet. However, by this date, a large number of RN motor launches, US PT boats and Italian MAS boats were operating a taxi service taking clandestine personnel to Southern France and Northern Italy (behind German lines), and exfiltrating them (well, those who survived) in due course.

A real photo, not postally used, on the reverse of which we find: A previously unrecorded naval photograph censor mark.

RAF censor R15/287 on a registered item through FPO 776 in Greece in February 1945.

An expensive air mail rate from an RAF chap to the USA in July 1941, apparently by PanAm (interesting address, Million Dollar Hwy?). The writer must have submitted it sealed, because on the reverse, we have: Re-posted in Cairo 4 th August.

An example of philatelic trivia from Australia: RAAF 4105 postmark on the last day of use on 30 th November 1945, on a RAAF honour cover.. The vendor claimed this was at Narromine in New South Wales, but this is not confirmed.

A postcard from a RAF Wing Commander in North Africa (R14/222 in April 1943) to the UK. It appears to have been hand-carried back to the UK and posted in London, receiving the attention of the Traveller Censorship Office (Daynes GBC70)