The first item was a key part of life in WW II, being a National Service certificate of registration, in this case for an Agricultural Worker.
The postal service carried on through WW 2 using the same cancels and postal stationery.
Below is an Advice of Delivery of a Registered Letter, sent within Ilminster in March 1946 - it travelled a distance of about a third of a mile.
The handstamps continued to be used, here is the "ILMINSTER / SOMERSET" double circle double-arc cancel in use from 1954 to 1969.
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