The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
PRISONER OF WAR MAIL BEING SORTED AT THE CENTRAL RED CROSS BUREAU FOR INQUIRIES AND SERVICE FOR PRISONERS OF WAR. AN AVERAGE OF 3,000 LETTERS IS RECEIVED EACH DAY. (NEGATIVE BY CRANSTONE).
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-11. ALL LETTERS FOR PRISONERS-OF-WAR, WHICH ARE HANDLED BY THE LETTER SECTION OF THE CENTRAL BUREAU OF THE AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, ARE FIRST SORTED ALPHABETICALLY. TWO VO
LETTERS TO PRISONERS IN JAPANESE HANDS BEING SORTED, I.E. FOR AMBOINA, MALAYA, TIMOR ETC. (NEGATIVE BY CRANSTONE).
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-11. IN THE LETTER SECTION OF THE CENTRAL BUREAU OF THE AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, WHICH DEALS WITH MAIL FOR PRISONERS-OF-WAR, THE EUROPEAN AND JAPANESE MAIL IS KEPT SEPARATE
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-11. ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO PRISONERS-OF-WAR IS HANDLED IN THE LETTER SECTION OF THE CENTRAL BUREAU OF THE AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY. HERE TWO RED CROSS WORKERS ARE SEEN SORTI
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-11. IN THE NEXT-OF-KIN PARCELS DEPARTMENT, CENTRAL BUREAU, AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, THROUGH WHICH ALL PARCELS DESTINED FOR PRISONERS-OF-WAR PASS. MISS LYNETTE DICKENSON, A
Portion of the redirection sorting room at the Australian Base Post Office, showing an Australian mail of 750,000 letters being compared with record cards. The mails were received from the various Sta
