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Postal History of Operation Tabarin, 1944 ~ 1945

                               EXPEDITION MAIL from BASE A, GRAHAM LAND
                                              INTERNAL CENSORED MAIL

World War II Censorship operated in the Falkland Islands and Dependencies from September 1939 - June 1945

                           1944 Internal cover at 1d rate tied by A1 datestamp, 11 NOV 1944
                             Censor: AT (Andrew Taylor), Surveyor, Base A; 11/11/(19)44.

   First mail of the season, aboard Sir William Scoresby arrived Stanley 15 December, per backstamp PS.3A
                                                       INTERNAL MAIL

  1944 Internal cover datestamp A1, 8 DEC 1944, to ‘Camp’, the Falkland name for the area beyond Stanley
 Bert Elliott was Farm Manager at North Arm, a sheep farm located in Lafonia, southern half of East Falkland Is
Taken by Sir William Scoresby at Port Lockroy 7-9 December, then returning to Stanley arriving 15 December

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