REST OF THE WORLD, MILITARY MAIL

Lot 525		Estimate: $250 New South Wales: Selection of Field POs with numbers/allocations (per Proud), details lightly pencilled on reverse, rare types include F.P.O. 024, 031, 153, 411, and various rubber datestamps (4), no duplication, some variable condition, generally good strikes (30)
Lot 526		Estimate: $300 Queensland: Selection of Field POs with numbers/allocations (per Proud) details lightly pencilled on reverse, various from F.P.O. 12 through to U.P.S. ELC 14 without duplication, some variable condition, generally good strikes (65)
Lot 527		Estimate: $300 Queensland: Registered selection of Field POs with differing numbers (per Proud), details lightly pencilled on reverse, some variable condition, generally good strikes (20)
Lot 528		Estimate: $250 Queensland: 1901 (31 Aug) 'On Active Service' stampless taxed cover (small handling tears) to South Brisbane with fine strike of double-circle 'FIELD POST OFFICE B.O./8/ BRITISH ARMY S.AFRICA' datestamp, T.P.O./B and Brisbane backstamp
Lot 529		Estimate: $125T Victoria: c.1901 OHMS Envelope inscribed 'COMMONWEALTH MILITARY FORCES OF VICTORIA.' and at lower left 'AREA 73B/DUNOLLY.', minor ageing, unused
Lot 530		Estimate: $125 Victoria: Selection of Field POs with differing numbers/allocations (per Proud), details lightly pencilled on reverse, includes rubber U.P.S. S33 (good strike), some variable condition, generally good strikes (15)
Lot 531		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $145 Australia: 1918 (16 Dec) unstamped 'O.A.S.' cover Fremantle to '4th Field Ambulance/ 4th Brigade/A.L.H.', '4TH L.H.BDE./18 FE 19/FIELD P.O.' arrival. Rare inwards mail to Lighthorse Brigade whilst at Tripoli
Lot 532		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $105 Australia: 1940 air mail cover to N.S.W. posted from HMAS 'Sydney' while stationed at Alexandria, Egypt for repairs, with HM Ships tombstone cachet in blue, adhesives tied by 'SYDNEY PAQUEBOT' cancel (Hosking #693) with square town die, also British Admiralty Records brochure giving account of the 'Bartolomeo Colleoni' by HMAS 'Sydney'
Lot 533		Estimate: $100T Australia: 1940s-45 selection of covers to the one addressee in W.A., all but one with ink illustration, some roughly opened, one stampless and another with missing adhesive (17)
Lot 534		Estimate: $200 Australia: c.1942 P.O.W. air mail envelope fine unused. Scarce
Lot 535		Estimate: $300 Australia: 1944 (2 Mar) use of 'AIR MAIL/LETTER CARD' with 'POSTAGE/1d/PAID' in red [ASC.X1.11] to Victoria with datestamp of 'AUST UNIT POSTAL STN./351' in use by 2/11th Field Regiment in W.A., minor staining. Scarce usage in other than the Northern Territory or Papua
Lot 536		Estimate: $150 Cocos (Keeling) Islands: 1953 commercial air mail cover to Australia with fine strikes of 'R.A.A.F. P.O./3 JE 53/COCOS-ISLAND' datestamp and 'R.A.A.F/SERVICE' handstamp to validate 4d concessional air mail rate
Lot 537		Estimate: $450 Iran/Bushire British Occupation: 1916 (18 Apr) registered cover (a little reduced) from Captain E W Reynolds, 96th Infantry, unusually to Mrs Reynolds in Sydney, bearing India 2a 6p (2) tied by very fine 'BUSHIRE/REG/18 AP/16' datestamp, Sydney and Edgecliff backstamps. Exceptional origin/destination item
Lot 538		Estimate: $200 Labuan: 1945 (Jul) covers (roughly opened) from Australian Serviceman to same addressee in Sydney with scarce 'FIELD POST OFFICE/037' datestamp in use at Labuan, one very good strike, others fair only (3 covers)
Lot 539		Estimate: $500 Federated Malay States: 1917 (10 Apr) registered cover from Onehunga, New Zealand to Kuala Lumpur with Straits Settlements 'OPENED BY THE/CENSOR AND/ OFFICIALLY SEALED' tape affixed and with 'LETTER CENSOR'S OFFICE/ G.P.O.' and 'PASSED/POSTAL CENSOR/PENANG' handstamps front and reverse
Lot 540		Estimate: $300 New Guinea: 1943 (May-Jun) covers (3, original enclosures) from same correspondence to Sydney at 1d surface and 3d air mail (2, one stamp lost) rates, cancelled by rare 'UNIT POSTAL STATION/A.P.1' datestamp showing a swan and boomerang, in use at Merauke, earliest a particularly good strike in violet
Lot 541		Estimate: $300 New Zealand: 1915 (14 Jul) Army stationery cover (roughly opened) from Malcolm Ross, Official War Correspondent, N.Z. Govt, stationed at Imbros Island, Gallipoli, to his wife in London, Headquarters F.P.O. datestamp, boxed Censor No.2225 handstamp
Lot 542		Estimate: $100 New Zealand: 1916 (2, one registered) and 1920 covers to Denmark with 'PASSED BY THE/ MILITARY CENSOR/N.Z.' cachets, the one in green with circled 'T/20/CENTIMES' plus 1939 air mail cover bearing 4/- Arms (4)
Lot 543		Estimate: $100 Togo: 1915 (25 Oct) registered cover Lome to Grand Popo bearing KGV opts on 1/-, 6d and 3d, unframed 'Passed by Censor/at/Lome (Togo)' in violet, Anecho transit and Dahomey arrival backstamps