- £275.00
Netherlands East Indies. (Internment Camp - Red Cross Mail). 1941. Netherlands Indies Red cross Air Mail envelope headed 'Nederlandsch-Indische Roode Kruis/ Tjikini 65- Batavia Centrum' with 'Service Des Prisonniers de Guerre/ 'Franc De Port' addressed to 'Au Bureau International De La Croix Rouge/ Palais du Conseil General, Geneve (Suisse)' bearing Netherlands Indies SG 403, 10c scarlet (8) tied by Medan date stamp '21st Jan 41' with adjacent 'Cdt. Intern - Kamp/ Koetajane' date stamp '21st Jan 41' with circular 'Het Nederlandsch Indische/ Roode Kruis' in carmine on face and reverse and hand-stamp 'Gecensureerd/ 2, endorsed 'By K.L.M. to Bagdad.'
Very attractive yellow Red Cross envelope issued to the internees at Camp Alasvallei/ Koetajane (North Sumatra) paying the four times Air Mail rate.
Most of the German men held in the camp were transferred to Dehra Dun in British India December 1941.
Ex Paul Bulterman's Internment Camp collection.
