£650 - £750
1944 (Aug 14) Thai Red Cross message form from George Powell in Civilian Internment Camp, Bangkok, to his mother in Australia, handstamped circular "INTERNMENT CAMP / CENSORED / Bangkok, Thailand", red cachets of "THE THAI RED CROSS" and the Red Cross at Ankara (Dec 18) and Geneva (Jan 8), received 1st March 1945. Reverse with Victoria District Censor cachet explaining how to reply. Also Australian Red Cross letters (8) to Mrs Powell informing her that George Powell is an internee in Bangkok or forwarding cable messages from Powell received by the Red Cross in Geneva (3), another letter forwarding an interesting description of the internment camp sent to the Red Cross by a released internee (with Form B33 on communicating with prisoners), and letters on sending mail or parcels or acknowledging donations (with two covers); a 1940 letter and cover from Powell in Batavia, and two covers posted after liberation. These comprise a stampless cover marked "Prisoner of War Post" posted at Perth (Oct 17) with a letter from Powell at "P.O. Box 167, Bangkok, 2nd October", carried to Australia by a friend (Mr Sewell), in which Powell gives details on mails sent and received during his internment (13 Red Cross messages and six letters or cards sent, six letters received); the second written on December 24th, with cover marked "Ex POW Mail", posted in Australia (Jan 7) franked 5½d. An interesting group, the Red Cross message form fine and rare. (12+).
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