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MILITARY CENSORSRIP HANDSTAMPS
OF THE BRITISH ARMY.

On the outbreak of war ~he army garrison on the island
consisted of two infaniry battalions, one of the British
army, less the Company on duty at ~ermuda, and one o£ ihe

West India Regiment. After Dunkirk the regular British
battalion was withdrawn, leaving behind the auxillary units
compri.sing Engineers, signals, artillery e-tc so -that Oni ts

of the ~ritish army remained on ~he island. This .British
Battalion was replaced by uni~s o£ the Canadian Army, ~hose

censorship ha.ndstamps will be deal-t with in a separa-te
sec-tion.
MiliiaTy censorship handsiamps were issued io all units
on the outbreak of war, and after censoring at unit level mail

was -taken -to the civilian pos-t o££ice and sent wii:b the
normal mail, although having been censored by a mili-tary

censor i 1:: was not examined by the civilian postal censor.
Fro~ early 1942 an Arm1 Base Posi o£~ice was esiablisbed
at Up :Park Camp 7 'Briiish Units being established ai ihis

Camp and ai Newcastle, where the ~ail was liable for
censorship by the Base Censor, as well as the Unii Censor.

Prom ~he Army ~ase Post Office the mail was transmitted via
the ~amaican Post Of£ice and this A.~.~.o. also censored
all incoming mail before transmit~ing i~ to ~he various ·

Units.
It should also be mentioned that one of the Military
censorship bands-tamps , M-AC 6, was applied at the Internment

Camp a-t qi bralt.ar Camp, and so .falls under the Prisoner o£
War Seciion of markings. Another of this section's
handstamps, M-AC 4, can also be found on mail of the Canadian

~orces although they had their own censorship handstemps.