Nick Colley

Forces Postal History Society ZOOM MEETING

19 August 2021

Royal Navy Stationery WW2

Clearly this is from the 1st Submarine Flotilla – apparently from the office of the senior officer. Roskill mentions the 1st Flotilla at Malta in the autumn of 1944, so the use of the abbreviated French FEV for February is hard to account for.

The joke is on me: the addressee is not (as far as I know) a relation/forbear. Even if he was, I’m not sure I’d admit to having anyone in my family tree who worked as a tax collector.

H.M.I.S. Hamla was a landing craft base, apparently adjacent to Bombay/Mumbai (British Fleet Mail 31)

A receipt for a registered letter handed in to the Fleet Mail Office, Port Tewfik, Egypt, 29th September, 1945 (ex-Jagger). Port Tewfik (or Tawfiq) is at the southern end of the Canal, where it enters the Gulf of Suez.

A postcard from Athens to a Greek naval POW in the Marlag und Milag Nord. It seems to be written by a Greek national – a relative of the addressee – but it is addressed in German, and the text is in French.