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Prisoner of War, Internment Camps and Gibraltar Camp , Jamaica.

POW 9 . SPECIAL PERMISSION/----/INTERNMENT CAMP .

This is a three line handstamp with SPECIAL PERMISSION, 4 x 45mm, on the first line,
a row of dots on the second line for an authorizing signatu~e and INTERNMENT CAM:,
2 x 3 amm on the last line . All the wording is in block ser~f type and the mark ~s
struck in purple ink .
EKD : 17 August 1942 LKD :

English

American Aid to ~Q'ar Prisoners,
16, Duers tein St .
BUFFALO , }T • Y •
U.S .A.

There is now shown an incoming cover to the camp from Nordenham, as in World War I
such incoming covers are rare . The cover bears Nordenhamn dater of the 26ch February,
1941, and bears on the reverse German military censorship resealing label and handstamp
which were applied at Cologne . It bears Jamaica Postal Censorship Service handstamops ,
POW 1, Number 5 . On arrival at the Camp it also received the Camp's POWC 5 struck in
purple ink.