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1943-44 two type 1 cards from Jan van Lingen, a coastguard in number 2 camp, to his family in Batavia and bears a fine strike of boxed Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp censor handstamp, with three additional characters obliterated, in carmine-red with unidentified seal, the reverse with Kitano and Akiyama seals; fine. The second card dated 1944 (21 Apr.) is from the same correspondence from camp 2 and bears a fair strike of Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp Headquarters Censored handstamp in purple with Kitano seal and on the reverse, Kitano and Watanabe seals; fine. Tett figs. 6-2-7, 13. Photo
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1944-45 two second type cards from Fredd Fieldhouse in camp 12 to his parents in Gillingham, Kent, the first bears a fair strike of Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp censored handstamp in blue with Kitajima seal and British censor “P.W. 2509” handstamp in red, the reverse with a good strike of boxed Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp Headquarters Censored in red with large Nomoto seal and Amakubo seal alongside. The second card is dated 1945 (8 May) from Hiroshima (one of the Fukuoka camps) and bears a light strike of boxed Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp Censored handstamp in purple with Kondo seal, Japanese c.d.s. (21.5) and British censor “P.W.3210” handstamp in red. Mail from camp 12 is very scarce. Tett figs. 6-2-8, 15. Photo Camp 12 became Hiroshima 5-B, Innoshima, where the work was shipbuilding and related labour 1944 (c.) first type card from Lieut. C. Aalders in camp 14 to his wife in Java, bears a fair strike of Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp Censored handstamp in blue with unidentified square seal, the reverse with Saito and Kitano seals. The card has been redirected to the civilian internee camp, Tjihapit, in Java; vertical folding crease. Mail from camp 14 is scarce. Tett fig. 6-2-9. Photo Camp 14-B was at Nagasaki where the labour was in the iron foundry. At the end of the war there were 195 POWs (152 being Dutch) 125
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