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Jamaica Defence: World War II: Messages to Enemy Countries.

Cover to Germany from Internment and P. of W. Camp, 24 August 1942.
From P. Ahrent No 453 INTERNMENT CAMP, / JAMAICA. (Farrimond type POW4).
Letter in German (Farrimond type POW4).
PRISONERS OF WAR POST (Farrimond type POW7).
POW mail was post free, but still had to pay cash (not stamps) for extras, in this case for airmail, hence the By
airmail / T.A. (Transatlantic) and the POSTAGE PAID (Farrimond type POW8).

Camp datestamp
(Farrimond type
POWC3):
24 August 42.

Civil censor
handstamp D / 38
(Farrimond type
JCH3).

German censor
tape: Geöffnet /
OberCommando
der Wehrmacht.

Red Cross Message Bureau cover to Switzerland (Farrimond type RX1), 1944.

Envelopes used to convey Red Cross Message Forms addressed to enemy or occupied countries. This one,
with a Dutch provenance, may have been between Dutch refugees in Jamaica and their home country.

Franked 2s 2d single
all-air transatlantic
rate.

Civil censor
handstamp D / 39
(Farrimond type
JCH3).

US Censor at New
Orleans: PASSED
BY CENSOR.