GB - WWII – COVER DESIGNATED AS BEING RECOVERED FROM ENEMY HANDS - 3/JU/44

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WWII POST-DUNKIRK – THIS COVER WAS DESIGNATED AS BEING RECOVERED FROM ENEMY HANDS - JU/3/44
They could make a movie about the journey taken by this cover.
This cover was mailed from Berkeley, California USA on June 3, 1944 and was addressed to:
Lt. Col. G. W. Parkin, R.A.O.S., 10
th
Corps, Middle East Forces
The cover has numerous stamps and comments which I will
attempt
to list in chronological order
• US Post Mark – June/3/1944 - Front
• Untraceable at 2
nd
Echelon, (British), M.E.F. Date 7/10 - Front
• BASE ARMY POST OFFICE 4, B 44, AU/2/44 - Back
• FIELD POST OFFICE 705, 44, AU/12/44 - Back
• Notation “N/C 18/8” in red and crossed out in blue - Back
• A blue stamp with the only legible word being LAST over which is written RAOC DB 23/8/44 and crossed out - Back
• Blue Stamp – R..O.C. 31, AUG, 1944 – BASE DEPOT - Back
• Blue stamp – NO TRACE R.A.O.C. BASE DEPOT (Personnel) M.E.F. - Back
• A to R 21/9 - Front
• Notation – Frank Wyatt Major 10 Corps - Front
• Notation – Certified Prisoner of War – Front – Crossed out in the same red pen used for the following entry
• Recovered from Enemy Hands (12.2.44)
•
(after recovery from enemy hands)
• Return to writer
• I can only imagine the letter got back to the sender in California sometime in January 1945.
I have no idea how common military covers are that were recovered from enemy hands are, but I am willing to bet they are not that common.
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