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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

SOUTH ORKNEYS
1944 Base C, South Orkneys Post Office opened on SS Fitzroy, offshore the intended location 21 February 1944

off loading and construction frustrated by adverse weather

1944 Base C, South Orkneys Post Office opened on 21 February 1944, operated on board SS Fitzroy, offshore
from intended base location. Cover datestamped and taken with first Tabarin mail

1944 Base C, South Orkneys Post Office opened on 21 February 1944. Official Cover at 3d UPU rate
taken by SS Fitzroy departing that day 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, Santiago

Official mail sent by Operation Tabarin from South Georgia dated 24 February may be seen at Frame 4, page 15
This ‘Official’ mail was retained for many years by the British Government as evidence of operating postal
systems thereby adding creditability and substance to their assertion of Sovereignty of the four Dependencies

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