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ARRIVAL OF LONG AWAITED BAGS OF MAIL, BEING TRANSFERRED TO HMAS SYDNEY.
1944-07-22. AERIAL PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE DUTCH CARGO VESSEL MV MAPIA. SHE HAS BEEN ARMED WITH AMERICAN GUNS WITH A 3 INCH AND 4 20 MM OERLIKON AA GUNS AFT, FURTHER OERLIKONS ON THE AFTER END OF THE SU
PERTH - H.M.A.S. "SYDNEY: THE ARRIVAL OF THE LONG-AWAITED MAIL.
Wounded soldiers being transferred from a train to waiting ambulances at Kantara. Mail bags are lying on the ground.
Trucking and sorting empty mail bags at the Australian Base Post Office. All mail bags were immediately turned when opened, any damaged bags being forwarded to the Civil Postal Service for repair, and
Cairo. c. 1943. Bags of mail from Australia line the steps after being unloaded from motor vehicle transport and native labour is used to carry the mail bags inside ready to be sorted by the postal se
THE ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST A.I.F. MAIL OF 161 BAGS AT MENA,-THE NON APPEARANCE OF THIS MAIL IN EGYPT CAUSED A GREAT DEAL OF TALK AND ANXIETY AMONGST THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS. IT HAD BEEN LABELLED TO G.P.O.
Tel El Kebir, Egypt. 1941-11. Two postal orderlies at Australian Army Base Post Office stacking bags of Christmas mail and parcels in a large stack after their arrival from Port Said.
