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Postal History of Operation Tabarin, 1944 ~ 1945

BRITISH GRAHAM LAND EXPEDITION - 1934-37
INWARD EXPEDITION MAIL

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1934 Inward Airmail from Wimbledon to JI Moore, BGLE Second Engineer; the rate is the sum of the airmail

and foreign letter rates. On the reverse is a group of transit markings : Paris, 24.XI.1934; ‘Servicio
Aeropostal Europa / America del Sud, AIR FRANCE Correspondencia Transportada Totalmente Por Avion’;

Montevideo, Nov 28 34 and Stanley, 8 DE 34

1935 Airmail inward sent in Expedition’s second year to A Stephenson, BGLE Chief Surveyor and Meteorologist
On reverse, Montevideo arrival transit markings both dated 18 X 35 (Airport and city post offices)
Collected by SS Lafonia, logged in bound from Montevideo at Stanley, with mail, on 26 October
There are only four known inward covers in connection with the BGLE expedition.

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