AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL HISTORY, MILITARY

Lot 442		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $200 1917 printed 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/FREE' envelope used from Trial Bay Camp with double boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR S.D.' in violet, and Commanding Officer's handstamp in blue, addressed to Manila, Philippines, with arrival cds on reverse of JAN 1 1917. Fine, and am very unusual destination for World War I POW mail
Lot 443		Estimate: $300 1945 (2 Sep) cover with hand-cut 'H.M.A.S. HOBART/TOKYO JAPAN' datestamp in violet, addressed to the famous Australian Commonwealth collector Dr L. Abramovich in Canterbury, N.S.W. Envelope with ironed-out horizontal and vertical creases, and of fine appearance
Lot 444		Estimate: $50 1962 (10 Apr) illustrated air mail cover to London endorsed 'FORCES ON SERVICE' with 1959 3d QEII cancelled Woomera cds 10 AP 62, and with boxed 'R.A.A.F./SERVICE' in violet. Scarce 3d concessional military air mail rate to the U.K.