The Anglo-Boer War Philatelic Society leads the study of the Postal History and Usages of the 2nd Anglo-Boer War
1899-1902. Areas of interest are stamps, envelopes, picture postcards, censor seals, memorabilia and other items
relevant to the war.
A fine exhibit by Petr Gebauer providing an overview of the field post services that operated on the present
territory of the Czech Republic - from the Austro-Hungarian Field Post 1914-1918 to the Soviet Field Post 1968-1991.
Established in 1952, the UK-based Forces Postal History Society was formed to bring together the many collectors
interested in the postal history of the Armed Forces of all countries, (and United Nations), at all times,
whether in war or peacetime, including the study of postmarks, cachets, postage rates, prisoner-of-war mail,
stamps and stationery, censorship and the organization of military postal services. The society has over 350
members in many countries.
A possible source of supply for military postal history material, Fortunes of War stocks an extensive
selection of older US Naval Covers including Crosby, Macon/Akron, Submarines, Surface Navy, Asiatic Fleet,
Old Ironsides, USS Arizona, and so on. There's a good stock of post-World-War-II naval covers in addition
to a fine selection of World War II era patriotic covers. Fortunes of War also carries a very large offering
of German Third Reich era postal history items including many of the rarer postally used propaganda cards.
In addition,there's a large selection of Zeppelin covers, Willrich postcards, German Navy (including U-Boat),
rocket mail, occupied Channel Islands, cigarette cards/albums, and magazines of the period. Plus an excellent
selection of rare Japanese WWII propaganda cards.
The Swedish Military Postal History Society, abbreviated SMPS, was formed to bring together the many collectors
interested in Swedish military post from 1631, when the first field post office was opened, to the present day.
The items collected include prephilatelic mail in war and peace, military letters, postcards and stationery,
military postmarks, Swedish military mail to and from foreign countries (e.g. Swedish Volunteer's and Swedish
UN forces mail), post from prisoner-of-war and internment camps, censorship and postal restrictions, foreign
field-post in Sweden, etc.
If you have an interest in military mail from anywhere, from any time period,you should be a member of
the MPHS and receive the informative and educational bulletin. You can also attend and participate in
philatelic meetings and exhibitions by other collectors with similar interests.
This document is an attempt to list and translate many of the markings, and some of the abbreviations
found on Vietnamese military mail. While by no means exhaustive, it should give the military postal history
collector a starting point for identification. Some of the terms are linked to images of covers bearing the appropriate term(s).
The Society was founded in 1987 and now has around 70 members. The Society endeavors to obtain new
information about the postal history of wartime Norway, and to make this available to collectors and
postal historians through publications and articles in philatelic journals. The Society has its own
members' periodical Krigsposten.
