Ref: DR19288
- £75.00
Netherlands East Indies. (Indian Field Post Office). 1946. Un-stamped Air Mail envelope headed 'On Active Service' written from Batavia addressed to India cancelled by 'F.P.O./ No 99' date stamp '18th Dec 46' with Bombay arrival on reverse '19/9'. Very fine.
Field Post Office No 99 allocated to Batavia (7.8.46) - (1.11.46).
British and Indian Troops formed part of the Allied Occupation during the period of turmoil known as the Indonesian National Revolution, the four year bloody struggle for Independence from Dutch rule.
