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Online General Sale No. 88 Bidding closes at 5pm AEDT on Friday 4th December 2026 Note: You can now zoom in on large photos. Click on thumbnail to see large photo.
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AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, WORLD WAR I POSTAL HISTORY, FORCES IN EGYPT
Lot 1125 | [ PPC ] |
Picture Postcards: small group, various publishers, with posed views of soldiers in camps, soldiers on tram in Cairo, building a bridge at Haifa, Palestine, also a couple of non-military Egypt scenes, mostly fine (10)    | ||
| Lot 1126 | [ PPC ] |
Picture Postcards: two real photo cards with manuscript identification on reverse, one 4th Battery 1st Div A.I.F. at Tel-El-Keber, leaving for France Jan 1916, with 'Rog' and 'Laurie' identified on photo; and 'Camels passing the top end of our lines', minor blemishes, ex Emery and the first illustrated on page 57 of his handbook (2)  | ||
| Lot 1127 | [ PPC ] |
Picture Postcards: two comic cards, showing soldiers at pyramids with two ladies, and hiring a taxi to Cairo. Fine and scarce (2)  | ||
| Lot 1128 | [ C/PPC ] |
1915 (24 Apr) Adelaide Y.M.C.A. Army Department envelope (toning) addressed to Victoria, with Egypt 5m tied by 'AUSTRALIAN BASE/DETAILS P.O.' cds. Also two picture postcards with the same datestamp (27 Sep and 18 Oct) both addressed to South Australia, one with 'ON ACTIVE SERVICE/_________ Lieut./O.C. "D" Company' censor mark in blue (3)  | ||
| Lot 1129 | [ PS ] |
1915 (18 May) Y.M.C.A. postcard addressed to Victoria with 'BRITISH CAMP/HELIOPOLIS' cds   | ||
| Lot 1130 | [ C ] |
1915 (16 Aug) cover to Victoria with 'A.I.F. INTER. BASE P.O./CAIRO' cds, and oval 'A.I.F./ON ACTIVE SERVICE FREE/..........CAPT./8TH. L.H. REGT.' in blue, few blemishes  | ||
| Lot 1131 | [ PPC ] |
1915 (6 Sep) picture postcard (Landscape near Cairo) addressed to Adelaide with 'A.I.F. INTER. BASE P.O./CAIRO' cds, large circular '27th. BATTALION A.I.F./ON ACTIVE/SERVICE/POST FREE/7th INF. BGDE., and 'A.I.F./Passed by Censor', both in violet  | ||
| Lot 1132 | [ C/PPC ] |
1915-16 mail from Australian Forces passing through Indian F.P.O.s, with 1915 (29 Sep) to Sydney with F.P.O. No. 35 cds censor handstamp (No. 84); 1915 (26 Nov) Indian Field Service Post Card to Victoria with 1a I.E.F. overprint tied by F.P.O. No. 313 cds; 1915 (30 Dec) picture post card (Ismailia) to South Australia with 'A.I.F.' INTERBASE P.O.' cds, and censor mark (No. 125); and 1916 (14 Feb) picture post card (Pyramids) with 2a6p I.E.F. overprint tied by F.P.O. No. 32 cds and with censor handstamp (No. 75). The Indian 11th and 12th Divisions, along with Australian units, provided the main defence for the Suez Canal  | ||
| Lot 1133 | [ C/PPC ] |
1915 (20 Oct) Y.M.C.A. cover to Tasmania (roughly opened), and 1915 (31 Dec) picture postcard to Victoria, each with 'AUSTRALIAN BASE/DETAILS P.O.' cds, the postcard additionally with 'A.I.F./Passed by Censor No. __' in reddish-violet. This handstamp had been used on the initial convoys, and was taken ashore when the troops were landed (2)  | ||
| Lot 1134 | [ C ] |
1915 (27 Nov) officer's letter to Perth (WA) endorsed 'On Active Service', poor 'AUSTRALIAN BASE/DETAILS P.O.' cds, and circular 'FRANKED BY/(initials)/CAPT. E.C.C.' in red. Peripheral faults and toning  | ||
| Lot 1135 | [ PS ] |
1916 (8 Nov) use of gratuitous On Active Service Letter Card produced by the Australian Stamp Printer from a member of the Signal Squadron in Egypt, addressed to South Australia and with British 'FIELD POST OFFICE/MD' cds and triangular 'PASSED BY CENSOR/No. 3200' handstamp, minor damage in one corner  | ||
| Lot 1136 | [ C ] |
1916 cover front to Sydney (redirected to Perth) with faint and illegible cds, endorsed 'On Active Service' and with circular 'FRANKED BY/ON ACTIVE/SERVICE/(initials)/ for O.C./8TH/REIN.1ST. BATT.' in violet, minor blemishes  | ||
| Lot 1137 | [ C ] |
1914 (Dec) Y.M.C.A. illustrated cover endorsed 'Stamp Unavailable', addressed to Prospect (SA) and with '3RD AUST. INF. BDE. FIELD P.O. cds. The First Convoy began disembarking in Egypt from 3 December 1914, and the 3rd Aust. Inf. Bde. was sent up two days later. Back flap missing, but an early use  | ||
