Allied Occupation of German East Africa during World War I

This slide show and talk given at the American Philatelic Society Stamp Show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on 8th August 2009 as part of the German Colonies Collectors Group meeting at the show and was based on an exhibit entitled “Allied Forces in East Africa World War I”.

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NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

At the 2008 Society conference in Lancaster Michael Dobbs provided a display of NATO related covers - from the various postal markings used by NATO military HQs or Agencies through to the postal marking used by the British forces based at NATO military HQs. This included NATO HQ and SHAPE, both formerly in France but which were re-located to Belgium in 1967.

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At the 2008 Society conference in Lancaster Peter Borrows provided a display of POW postal stationery cards. Cards are from the Middle East (ME Form 65); initially Peter only saw Italian POW cards and it was only after publication of his book did he find German cards existed (ME Form 62). He also showed a selection of South African POW 10 cards. The United States also produced cards after they joined in the war - they produced cards for both POWs and internees. There were various form designations used - WD-PMG Form 7-1, 19-8, 19-9, 19-10, 19-11 and Forms 6, 6-1, 7 and 7-1.

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As part of the Society annual competition for the John Daynes Plate in December 2006, Edmund Hall entered and won with an exhibit of Korean War material entitled: "The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Just War Against US Imperialism"

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On occasions for competitions I write especially for it on others I grab the required pages from part of my collection. This is such an occasion but in this case these sheets do not come from one contiguous section but from bits and pieces from within it. It just so happens that I could make 16 sheets on wars within the American continent mostly only involving American countries. For this reason I excluded the Falklands war, which I have shown before. Some of these conflicts are seldom mentioned and due to scarcity of material it would almost be impossible to form much of a collection around any one of them. One exception being the Chaco war, of which I only show a part of my collection here. Information of the events, in some cases, is as rare as the covers themselves and as for finding data on uniforms and equipment – well that’s another story.

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To mark the 50th Anniversary of the Suez Crisis, the Society held a meeting in November 2006 at which members displayed related items from their collections - here are a few examples of pages that were displayed.

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