TRISTAN DA CUNHA: Cachet no5, cover to S.Africa, post 1944 & insert

Stanley Gibbons No............:D15

 item type.........................: envelope / cover + insert

Size approx in mm..............: 137 x 86 + 40 x 73

Period..............................: mid 20thC

Item Condition...................: fair for period and place, heavy tone & soiling, hinge remnants some wear, see scans

Front................................: good

Back.................................: good

Corners.............................: good, some rounding

Edges................................: good, some small wear

Franking / adhesive.............: ON SERVICE (free)

Cancellation........................:Cachet No 5 SG C6 (in use from 1929) TRISTAN DA CUNHA

 Etiquettes / instructions........:ON SERVICE (type top left)

Blurb..................................:

Usual type of missive.

Probably philatelic - addressed to a boy & enclosing a fragment with a  fine impression of the cachet & m/s:

"This is the best I can do for you, D.Hudson". 

The sender:

F Sgt D.G. HUDSON

H.M.S. ATLANTIC ISLE

FLEET MAIL OFFICE.

The Royal Navy weather & radio station on Tristan Da Cunha used for  monitoring German U boats & shipping was named Job7. Staff of 16 men of the Tristan da Cunha Volunteers.

Name changed in January 1944 to Atlantic Isle