Sunday 10 November 2024

Taunton Miscellany part 3

Some more Taunton starting with an unfranked letter from New South Wales in July 1914.  The postage due was 20 gold centimes (as in the "N.S.W. / T / 20" cachet) which equated to 2d.

Another Taunton postage due, from 1918 on an OHMS envelope with a manuscript note that the Post Corporal had been refunded (presumably he had had to pay the 2d postage due.

Below is a Telegram sent in July 1935, with an advertisement for "Night Telegraph Letters" on the reverse.
V-Mail was a mail process used by the United States during WWII.  The item below was sent from the 67th General Hospital at Taunton to the USA.  V-Mail was based on an earlier British Airgraph process.
Here is a map of the US Camp at Taunton from 1944.

The wrapper below was used to send something as Printed Matter in 1944 at a 1d rate.  The Newspaper rate was more expensive but allowed for a heavier weight.



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