Page 24 - Sutclifffe-APD_Censorship_PoW

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

POWC 4 . INTERNMENT CAMP/CHECKED No . 1/JAMAICA.

This marking is another TRD type with a double lined oval, the outer being denticulated,
30 x 50mm, the wording as above being in 3mm high block serif type. The centre reads
CHECKED No. 1 and the mark is struck in purple ink . The Camp also had a second handstamp
reading CHECKED No. 2, also struck in purple ink.
No. 1 EKD: 20 November 1945 LKD: 19 October 1946
No . 2 EKD: June 1942 LKD: December 1942

Reverse of a Postal Stationery item, POWPS 4, written on 6 June, 1946, to the U.S.A.
bearing POWC 4, No. 1.

Sender's Name .... ~ ·1Jl/~¥..~ ............. No ........ 9...'t.~ .... .

Rank ........ ~~~ ................ Servic~.~./&.:~~ .. f.. .. /..{~ ..

Internment Camp, Jamaica, B.W.I .

. There is now discussed one of t he h a ndstamped used by the Postal Censorshi p Service
wh~ch are often seen on the Camp' s mail. As mentioned, mail from the Camp was subject
t o the attentions of the Service . No r mall y , the Service relied on the censorship
already carried by the Camp' s Orderly Room and one or other of the Service' s markings
was applied to "pass" the letter .

•mER

c