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Postal History of Operation Tabarin, 1944 ~ 1945

OFFICIAL MAIL
Official mail, for retention by British Government, was posted on the opening day of each new Base Post Office

GRAHAM LAND
1944 Base A, Graham Land Post Office opened at Port Lockroy on 12 February 1944

1944 Official Cover, 1d rate, posted from Base A, Graham Land on 12 February 1944 to a London address
Taken by SS Fitzroy departing on 17 February with the first Tabarin mail, docking Stanley on 29 February

Despatched on 6 March aboard SS Fitzroy to Montevideo, for onward shipment to England

1944 Official Cover, 3d UPU rate, posted from Base A, Graham Land on 12 February 1944
Taken by SS Fitzroy departing on 17 February with the first Tabarin mail, docking Stanley on 29 February
Despatched on 6 March aboard SS Fitzroy to Montevideo, for onward transport to a South American address,

the British Naval Attaché, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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