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Sw. volunteers in the Anglo-Boer War & South Africa 1899-03 The Scandinavian Free Corps 1902 Censored postcard to Sw. POW, Bollnäs, Sweden - St. Helena. Place Date *=cancel 10 öre, F54, Foreign postcard outside PKXP nr 46C* 8.5 Railroad Postal com- Scandinavia (St. Helena UPU member (Ånge-Storvik) partment 1896-) Jan. 1, 1896 - Jan. 31, 1921. Trelleborg- 10.5 Sea Post Office, Sassnitz 142B* Train uu via London Train Southampton, 17.5 Br. mail steamer uu UK Dunwegan Castle uu via Madeira 21.5 uu St. Helena* 28.5 “Passed by Censor”* (Apr. 1901- (May 1 - Aug. 7, uu 1913) 1902) uu uu The Swede Carl Emanuel Mellquist (POW after the battle of Magersfontein Dec. 11, 1899) was placed in the POW uu uu camp “Dead Wood Camp” (opened Apr. Mail route 1900 - Aug. 1902) at St. Helena. POWs from the Scandinavian Corps on St. Helena 1900- 1902. Photo in Jørgen Jørgen Friis’ files in the Rigs- arkiv, Copenhagen.