- £350.00
Netherlands East Indies. (Civilian Internees in Sumatra). 1944. Special Prisoner of War card issued for the civilian internees in Sumatra written from 'H.I.I.M. Schellart, Internment Camp, Medan, Sumatra' dated '31st Aug 1944' addressed to his wife in a camp in Bandoeng.
Card headed with framed 'Gun Yokuryusha Yubin' (Army Internee Mail) with 'Sumatora (in Katakana) Gun Yokuryusho (Sumatra Army Internment Camp) wirh boxed 'Ken'etsuzumi' (censored) and censor seal of "Tachi" in orange with 'CQ 25435' in blue ink, the internee number in Bandoeng (crossed out) and 'CR', for Batavia with new internee number '17867' in pencil.
Tjihapit was the largest women's camp in Bandoeng and Mrs Schellart had been moved to another camp in Batavia before this card was sent.
Very rare inter-camp mail, less than ten items known of this Civilian Internment Camp card.
Illustrated by David Tett in his volume Dutch East Indies 'Paradise Lost" page 221.
Ex Paul Bulterman's Prisoner of War collection.
