Lot 522
Sarawak 1942 POW incoming card

The Academic Collection | Part 4 | S24025
Auction: 16 December 2024 at 10:30 GMT
Estimate: £600 - £800
Description
1942 India 9p postal stationery card with printed POW/Sarawak address and printed message, sender's thumbprint on both sides, sent from Banda-daud Shah 5 AUG 42. Red boxed INCONNU/ RETOUR and Japanese returned mail slip, originally attached to card; bears the same INCONNU marking and fine boxed Kuching ‘Borneo P.O.W. Camp’, Simonoseki CDS of 29.10.43. Just two cards are recorded sent to soldiers of the 15th Punjabi Regiment. Ex Watterson and illustrated on PP 16-17 of his book

