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Prisoner of War , Internment Camps and Gibra1tar Camp , Jamaica.
Section VII. Handstamps used at the Camp.

POW 3 . FROM INTERNMENT CAMP .

This handstamp is worded as above in red bloc k serif type, 3 x 56mm, enclosed by a
single line frame , 11 x 73mm, and it appears to one of the earliest recorded from the
Camp . By 1940 the Camp had not received all the handstamps referred to below to later,
hence the manuscript endorsements on the cover below .
EKD : 12 March 1940 LKD;

Cover bearing POW 3 marking in red at the bottom left . On the reverse is a manusc r i p t e nd
ink reading, Sender: name and number Kingston, Jamaica/B . W. I/Internment Camp/Up Park Camp; i t
at 2/2d with KINGSTON dater of the 12 ~ March, 1 940 . The front is also endorsed "By Trans Atl
Mail and is one of the few Camp covers that has paid postage ; it also bears Postal Censorship
handstamp PC 2 , Number 1 in blue ink .

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