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7.2 ... in difficult times Scouts have delivered the mail often at danger to themselves

lmperf o rated Proofofstamp f or the Unissued. Issued by the Polish Exile
plate proof Home Army (A .K.). 2,250 were printed. Government in London.

Over 300 Scouts and Guides served in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Several of them were killed in action.

POSTKARTE

ABS ENDER

cfa.v. ~{t.i .70UA-U.} .

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The imperial eagle with

swastika, in the top right

corner of the card, was

the symbol of the

German occupying

power.

It was torn offbefore the

card was used during the

IX.40. Warsaw uprising.

Scout Post cancel "HARCERSKA POCZTA POLOWA 44"fro m the City Centre South p ost office,
Scout censorship "CENZURA HARCERSKA". Approx. 5 postal items are recorded with the "44" postmark.

,1,gNZUROWA1lt M 8/. After sixty-three days of bitter fighting, the
insurrection was crushed by the German
£~~ ~ ~ occupation force, and on 3 October 1944,
Warsaw fell for the second time. When it
was over, 200,000 people were dead, and
the entire city was in ruins.

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~fq 60' ff'.-: Warsaw 1944 Home Army Field Post, letter with definitive
stamp (issued 4 September) of th e Home Army (A. K.),
carried by scouts. The censor marking "CENZUROWANE

1 0 " ·:.',.· No. 18" was used in the City Centre South censor office.

'~ 13, 750 stamps were printed, in 5 colours, of these were

~---------------------------~ approximately 8,000 damaged by fire on 2 to 4 Sept. 1944.