Straits Settlements, Malaya and British Borneo During the Second World War, 1939 - 1945
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David Foreman
VANPEX 2009 Grand Award
VANPEX 2009 Grand Award
Synopsis
Introduction
1 Britain's Declaration of War
2 Map of Malaya & Straits
3 Declaration & Censorship
4 Business as Usual
5 Family mail
6 Seal mail service
7 Exports of raw materials
8 Britain's Naval superiority
9 A Canadian presence
10 A day of significance
11 Malaya Patriotic Fund
12 Stamp Duty
13 Sensitive material
14 Royal Navy censor mark
15 Partial airmail service
16 British Territories - Borneo
17 Philately in war-time
18 Remembrance Day 1940
19 Old habits die hard!
20 Indian Army
21 'Export' of stamps
22 Britain's silent ally
23 Holidays continue
24 British banks
25 Singapore to England
26 Ecocomic matters
27 Japanese forces to Vietnam
28 The Indian Army in Malaya
29 The Indian Army in Malaya
30 The Indian Army in Malaya
31 1941 Return to sender
32 Australian Imperial Force
33 Royal Air Force in Malaya
34 Living on borrowed time
35 Last cover to leave
36 Japanese bomb Malaya
37 British Naval superioity
38 Sinking of British ships
39 The Prince of Wales
40 British Surrender, 1942
41 Japanese postal system
42 Mail delivery resumed
43 Japanese overprints
44 Currency in transition
45 Japanese administration
46 Prisoner of war mail
47 Fu Kan Shi seals
48 Commerative Cancellation
49 Japanese overprints
50 Japanese stamps for Malaya
51 Addressing POW mail
52 Censored postcard
53 Australian POW mail
54 c/o Japanese Red Cross
55 POW deceased
56 Japanes banks
57 Opium dependency
58 Censored stationery
59 Censored stationery
60 Creative re-sealing
61 Insufficiently addressed
62 An official cover
63 Interstate usage
64 Thai occupation
65 Overprinted stamps - Borneo
66 Bridge over the River Kwai
67 Military mail to Japan
68 Censored airmail postcard
69 Only known cancellation date
70 New POW stationery
71 Custom cleared Maeda Island
72 Commerative cancel
73 Registered cover - Philatelic
74 British reduced airmail rate
75 The War is over
76 Surrender of Japan
77 The King's image
78 The Union Jack over Penang
79 Undelivered mail
80 Resumption of postal service
81 Military Administration
