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Prisoner of War, Internment Camps and Gibraltar Camp, Jamaica.
Section XII. Post Office daters .

GC 1 . The Kingston dater.

This is the normal double lined of the Kingston G. P.O., 30mm in diameter, with Kingston
at the top and Jamai ca at the bottom, both in 3mm high sans serif type. The month is
expressed in a t wo letter code. The year a two figure notation - often omitt ed, the dater
contained a "code number" - in this case "4" . The dates of usage are those recorded when
the dater is recorded on the Camp' s mail .
EKD : 13 November 1940 LKD : 6 April 1943

Local cover to Constant Spring with GC 1 of the 13th November, 1940, the cover also bears
the straight line CAMP GIBRALTAR handstamp, GCU 1 , struck in purple ink.