The Postage Stamp in War

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Frederick John Melville. The Postage Stamp in War

The Postage Stamp in War

Table of Contents

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

AUSTRIA

BELGIUM

BELGIUM (GERMAN ADMINISTRATION)

BOSNIA

FRANCE

FRENCH MOROCCO

HUNGARY

INDIA EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

MONACO

NEW GUINEA

RUSSIA

SAMOA (BRITISH)

TOGOLAND (BRITISH ISSUE)

TOGOLAND (FRENCH ISSUE)

TURKEY

NOTICE

APPENDIX

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Frederick John Melville

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The preliminary arrangements necessitated by the vast area of the operations provided for two base offices, the one in Cape Colony and the other in Natal, and 43 field post offices, and by June, 1900, the Army Postal Corps was composed of ten officers and 400 N.C.O.'s and men, exclusive of post office telegraphists, etc., serving with the Royal Engineers. Many interesting statistics of the mails at different periods of the war have been given in various records, but it will suffice to quote some general ones on the authority of the Postmaster-General. His forty-sixth report, 1900, states:

During eight months of the Crimean War, 362,000 letters were sent out, and 345,000 were sent home. During a similar period of the war in South Africa 5,629,938 letters were sent out, and 2,731,559 were sent home.

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