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The Great War / World War I

3rd. Australian Infantry postmark

Cover with 3rd. Australian Infantry postmark.
Based at Mena, Cairo, from 5.12.15 to 28.2.15 until sent to Gallipoli

British Army Post Office Egypt

W.W.I. Turkish officers' P.O.W. camp at Sidi Bishr in Alexandria.
Cancelled with double ring Base Army Post Office Z and showing triangular censor mark

British Army Post Office Egypt

RAK T.P.O., the military T.P.O. from Kantara, on the east bank of the Suez Canel, to Railhead.
Some suggest the R stands for Rafa, but the T.P.O. recorded dates show this T.P.O.
to have been in use long before the railway reached Rafa in March 1917.