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Jamaica Defence: World War I Censorship.

Military Censorship, General Staff Office, 1917.
British army units used a Passed by Field Censor handstamp. The cover below shows the GSO
mark, which is only other recorded type of Military Censorship mark in Jamaica in World War I.

This, Farrimond
type AC1, added
MS Censored and
initials to the
General Staff
Office handstamp
(Farrimond type
GS1).

Registered cover
from the GSO
Jamaica to Great
Britain.

4d (2d double
Forces rate + 2d
registration).

GSO: 2 June 17

Kingston registered:
5 June 17.

Ex Sutcliffe.

Naval Censorship, 1918.

A Naval Censorship
Service was established on
the island.
The undated PASSED BY
NAVAL / CENSOR…
(Farrimond type RNC3)
was a locally manufactured
handstamp used on
outgoing and transit post.

1d postcard rate from
Kingston to Great Britain.

Kingston: 8 June 18.