e 8, a newspaper cancellation, with NFF (Natal Field Force) in
white letters on a black ground, circular shape.

[Illustration: 30A 32A.]

Type 9 (_Fig._ 30A). A thick lined circle, 20 mm. in diameter,
lettered F.P.O. (Field Post Office) and a number, also used for
newspapers.

Type 10. An almost circular obliteration lettered P.O.A. (Post Office,
Africa) with the number 43, a bracket at each side and two thick bars
at top and at bottom.

Type 11 (_Fig._ 31). Used in travelling post offices (T.P.O.), struck
in black or violet. The travelling post offices are "EAST NO. 1,"
"MIDLAND," "WESTERN," and "NORTHERN."

Type 12 (_Fig._ 32). For fixed army post offices in Orange River
Colony and Transvaal, used from about the end of 1901 and for a short
time after the declaration of peace.

A fancy type of town postmark is shown in _Fig._ 32A.

Another interesting postmark relic of the war in South Africa is
one struck in red "RECOVERED FROM WRECK OF MEXICAN" a ship which was
returning from South Africa with mails from the troops, and which
foundered after collision with the ss. _Winkfield._ The bulk of the
mail was recovered.

THE GREAT WAR, 1914. The Army Postal Service with the British
Expeditionary Force on the Continent in the present war is under the
command of Colonel W. Price, C.M.G., who as Captain Price had the long
experience of service with the Army Post Office in South Africa. It is
scarcely necessary to say that the volume of correspondence now being
dealt with by the service is unprecedented in the history of the
British Army. In the early months of the war the outgoing mail to the
Army Base Post Office in France averaged 12,000 parcels and 250,000
to 300,000 letters a day. It is impossible to give statistics of the
number of branch offices of all grades established, but already there
are many interesting postmarks originating with the British Army in
France.

The various types of marks so far recorded are:--

Army Base Post Office (_Fig._ 33).

Advance Base Post Office (_Fig._ 34).

[Illustration: 33 34]

Army Post Offices with the Troops (_Figs._ 35-37).

[Illustration: 35 36 37]

There are also a number of types of Censor marks, not all necessarily
military, and printed labels used in re-sealing opened letters
(_Figs._ 38-40):

[Illustration: 38 38A 39 40. 40A. 40B. 40C. 40D.]

In this connection may also be mentioned the various marks used on
letters sent by prisoners of war in charge of