BECHUANALAND
Postal History, Postmarks
POSTAL HISTORY
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WWII 1942 (June-September), group of four British ‘Air Mail Letter Card’ (fronts only), each addressed to Serowe, Bechuanaland Protectorate. Two bearing Great Britain KGVI 3d an two with New Zealand 3d variously tied by Field Post Office, Egypt or M.P.O datestamps, and each with a different crowned circle censor marking and signature of the censor. Three are addressed to ‘Kgosi Tshekedi Khama’ and are endorsed ‘Written in Sechuana’, ‘written in Setswana’ or just ‘Secwana’. The senders were almost certainly members of the African Auxiliary Pioneer Corps serving in North Africa or Italy. Mail from the Bechuanaland contingent is rare.
Note: ‘Kgosi Tshekedi Khama’. Kgosi is Setswana for Chief and Tshekedi Khama was the leader of the Bamangwato tribe. Seretse was his son and Botswana's first President.
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