Ref: G5788
- £100.00
1944 6d on 1/- P.O.W. air letter card to Prison of War Camp Stalag 344 A, Germany, sent from WELLINGTON 14 NOV 44. The SIX PENCE overprint is 26mm (Scott & Startup Type 7, No. 51 in their listing.) A New Zealand Army Base P.O. 1 AU 45 datestamp is on the flap over an octagonal censor mark. Due to the Germans removing P.O.W’s. from camps as the Allies advanced, much mail had not been delivered and was found and repatriated when the Allies occupied Germany. There appeared to be at least four different printings of the red 6d overprint as lengths of this overprint known are 25mm (the first), 26mm, 27mm and 28mm.
