MISCELLANEOUS ARMY COVERS BY FPO & BFPS POSTMARK

BFPS 1000 - 30 Nov 66 - 30 Nov-2 Dec 66 British Stamp Exhibition Rheindahlen Garrison Stamp Club

FPO 1066 1 Jly 1968 Prince Rupert School 21 Years Wilhelmshaven Special Postmark. Plain cover added typed cachet N.C.O.i/c BFPO 25 Signed and J H Cooper Collingwood ( Boys ) House Prince Rupert School Wilhelmshaven BFPO 25 .

BFPS 1000 - 24 Sep 69 - 1st Anniversary Conquest of the Blue Nile with red Headquarters Great Abbae Expedition datestamp. British Special Scientific Exploration Society.

BFPS 1000 - 19 Aug 1995 postmark on 19p and 25p Victory Celebrations stamp. VE VJ Day. The Official Commemorative Cover British Forces Post Office The Nation gives Thanks

BFPS 1072 13 Sept 68 Ulster Tattoo 1968

BFPS1083 - 26 Jun 69 Arm Ex 69 Bella Vue Manchester Commemorative Cover

BFPS 1091 14 Jun 69 Aldershot Army Display Offical Commemortive Cover

BFPS1124 - 26 Jun 70 9d Florence Nightingale Stamp.Visit of Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne to the Florence Nightingale Kaisersmerth Hospital .

BFPS 1140 - 1 Feb 71 - Formation of 20 Maritime Regiment - RCT cover - flown in Belfast from Brize Norton to Norway carried SRN6 Mk.11 army hovercraft above the Arctic Circle Feb-Apr 1971. 6 backstamps including Ship Office RFA Sir Tristram.

BFPS 1155 - 27 Jun 71 - Royal Scots Greys - British Columbia Centenary - Headless Valley Expedition.

BFPS 1157 28 Apr 1971 Army Stand Ideal Home Exhibition. Plain Cover

BFPS 1191 6 Sep 71 2p Royal Regt Gibraltar Stamp, Fusiliers Week 1971

BFPS 1198 28 Nov 71 25th Anniversary Royal Military Police Association.

BFPS 1272 - 25 May 72 - Presentation of Colours to 1st RN The Light Infantry.

BFPS 1279 - 13 May 72 - as above with registered label FPO ADS FPO 12879 No.0426.

1377a BFPS 1292 - 7 Sept 72 -25th Anniversary 1947 - 1972 617 Tank Transporter unit Royal Corps of Transportwith 7.9.72 Hamm.West1 postmark on German Stamp.Offical Cover.

BFPS 1324 - Army Day Gibraltar - Official commemorative cover.

BFPS 1342 - 23 Jul 73 - Commemorating the Second World Helicopter Champions. Signed by pilot Alex Kapralov. The winning crew - Alex Kapralov and Lew Chekalow (Masters of Sport of the Soviet Union). Flew this cover in their Mi-1 on Army Air Day. Numbered cover.

Personally Signed by Flugkapitan Hanna Reitsch and Capt Tony Horsey DFM,AAC. Pilot who flew the aircraft.
Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II. Along with her flying skills Reitsch was photogenic and willingly appeared in Nazi Party propaganda throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s, which made her a celebrity. She set over forty aviation altitude and endurance records during her career, both before and after World War II, and several of her international gliding records are still standing to this day
The film Operation Crossbow began a popular myth that early guidance and stabilisation problems with the V-1 flying bomb were solved during a daring test flight by Reitsch in a V-1 modified for manned operation. However, in her autobiography Fliegen, mein Leben, Reitsch recalled other test pilots had been killed or gravely injured while trying to land the piloted version of the V1 (known as the Reichenberg), so she made test flights late in the war to learn why and found the craft's extremely high stall speed was thwarting the pilots, who had no experience landing at extremely high speeds. Reitsch's background with the very fast Me 163, along with simulated landings at a safe high altitude, led her to a successful landing of the Reichenberg, but only at over 200 km/h (120 mph).
Black & White Photo's of Hanna Reitsch & Achgelis with details

BFPS 1373 - 5 Jun 73 - set of 3 official cards with different handstamps and cachets. Certified by Oberkreisdirektor. 50 SETS ISSUED.

1380a BFPS1400 - 16 May 73 IBRA Exhibition Munich British Day Special postmark on 3p Cricket 1973 Stamp.Red posted at the Exhibition First Day of Issue cachetOfficial TCCB Cover.

BFPS 1408 - 18 Apr 74 0 British Army entry - Whitbread Round the World race. Official cover carried aboard Yacht British Soldier. Rio de Janeiro to Portsmouth.

BFPS 1408 - As above but signed by skipper J.E. Myatt.

BFPS 1429 - 27 Oct 73 - Presentation of Colours to the 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion The Royal Regiment of Wales by HRH The Prince of Wales Colonel-in-Chief.

BFPS1459 13 Sept 74 215th Anniversary Capture of Quebec Postmark on 10p Gibraltar The Royal Sussex Regt 1790 stamp.Commemorative Cover.

BFPS 1486 - 15 Aug 75 - Army ex. 15-17 August.

BFPS 1584 - 24 Jun 77 - Aldershot Army Display 8.5p Silver Jubilee stamp. Official RE cover.

BFPS 1519 6 Sept 1975 Anglo - German Weekend Verden. Official Cover

BFPS1588 23 Jun 77 9p Jubilee Stamp 25th Anniv HQ Northern Army Group Second Allied Tactical Air Force

As above but with German stamp postmarked Monchengladbach 25th Anniversary Northern Army Group

As above but with Belgian stamp postmarked Monchengladbach 25th Anniversary Northern Army Group

As above but with Nederland stamp postmarked Veldpost 25 23.V1.77Monchengladbach 25th Anniversary Northern Army Group

BFPS1661 29 3 69 Amalgarmation of the Royal Horse Guards & The Royal Dragoons.Offical Cover

BFPS 1608 - 24 Jun 78 - Aldershot Army Display.

BFPS 1785 - 3 Sep 82 - 10th Anniversary Freedom of Krefeld - 16 Signal Regiment.

BFPS 1812 16 Jul 1975 Royal Tournament 1975 official Cover

BFPS 1830 5 Jul 80 RACF RAA Royal Artillery Official Cover

BFPS 1875 - 7 May 75 - The Guild of St Helens Centenary.

BFPS 1882 - 10 Aug 82 - Centenary Celebrations Exercise British Prime 82 - Commemorating the Centenary of the Forces Postal Services Voyage in Aug 82 on HMSTY Sabre.

As above but with 24 Aug postmark.

BFPS 1877 1 Aug 77 Royal Military Police Centenary 1877 - 1977.

BFPS 1893 01 Jul 78 Royal Army Pay Corps Centenary Official cover

BFPS 1904 - 17 Oct 79 - 75th Anniversary of the Cadet Force at Christ's College Finchley. Blue carried cachet by cadets of Christ's College CCF.

BFPS 1956 16 June 1982 Peru Joint Services Hovercraft Expedition. . First Flight Hovering Doctor service Rio Apurimac – Amazon Headwaters of Peru. Leader Sqn Ldr M Cole. Signed by Sqn Ldr Michael Cole.

BFPS 1981 - 29 May 81 Military Freedom Ceremony - Borough of Rushmore official cover.

BFPS 1984 - 17 Sep 84 - Exercise Lionheart - Spearpoint 84.

BFPS 1998 - 31 Jul 98 - The 1998 Royal Tournament - RAF Celebrates 80 Years. Official cover.

As above but 2 Aug 98.

As above but 25 Jul 98.

As above but 26 Jul 98.

BFPS 2023 - 16 Mar 89 - Royal Welsh Fusilliers 1689-1909 pmk on Royal Welsh Fusilliers stamp. Cover of Sergeant Luke O’Connor awarded Victoria Cross at Battle of the Alma. Signed by Private William Speakman Won his award on 4 November1951 in Korea during a heavy Chinese attack on his position.He led a party,armed with grenades which six times drove the enemy off the position.Attached 1st Btn The King's Own Scottish Borderers.

new £5.95 BFPS2225 19 Jul 90 50th Anniversary of the Intelligence Corps. Signed by Colonel Commandant & Director Intelligence Corps. Official HQ INT Corps Cover

BFPS 2226 - 1 Aug 90 - Colchester Searchlight Tattoo.

BFPS 2229 - 28 May 90 - 50th Anniversary of the Fall of Belgium. Signed by 2nd Lt. R.W. Annand VC The Durham Light Infantry. Flown cover JS/50/40/3c. Certified.

BFPS 2239 - 9 Dec 90 - 50th Anniversary of Operation Compass. Signed by Field Marshal Lord Carver. Capt. Carver Royal Tank Regiment - served with the 7th Armoured Division throughout Operation Compass. JS/50/40/8c. Certified.

BFPS 2242 - 10 Feb 91 - Operation Colossus - The Tragino Aqueduct. Red parachuted by Parachute Regiment the Red Devils. Signed by Capt. Carroll Leader Parachute Regiment Display Team.

BFPS 2248 - 28 Apr 91 - Young Philatelists Day Dortmund Huckard S. Official cover.

BFPS 2376 Sounding Retreat by Massed Band The Light Divison Signed by General Sir Garry Johnson KCB OBE MC Colonel Commandant The Light Civison. /

BFPS 2298 - 16 Nov 91 - 50th Anniversary of the Formation of the Special Air Services. Signed by The Rt. Hon. Earl Jellicoe. (Recruited by D Stirling into L. Detachment SAS Regiment as technically his second-in-command). AC53c. Certified.

BFPS 2433 - 2 Nov 94 - To commemorate Two Centuries of Road Transport in the British Army 1794-1994.

new £5.95 1st April 1997 BFPS 2523 Relocation of the intelligence centre DefeIntelligence and Security centre Signed by Lt Gen Sir John Foley KEB OBE MC Chief of Defence Intelligence. .Foley joined the Special Air Service as an enlisted man during his national service and ultimately rose to become director of the Regiment. He was later Director of General Intelligence, became Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1992, and went on to be Cheif of Defence Intelligence in 1994. He retired from the military and left that post in 1997

6 Jun 44 BFPS 6640 - 40th Anniversary of D.Day 6 Jun 1944. Mill Hill cover. Signed Rt Hon Sir Tasker Watkins VC DL. Signed Rt Hon Sir Tasker Watkins VC DL.Watkins was commissioned into theWelsh Regiment in 1941. Alieut iin the 1/5th battalion, he was one officer in a group in Normandy post D – Day leading an assault on aWehrmacht machine gun . After all the other officers were killed in the approach, Watkins continued to lead the group and won his VC for leading a bayonet charge against 50 armed enemy infantry and then single-handedly took out a machine-gun post to ensure the safety of his unit

BFPS 6644 - As above but HQ 3rd Armoured Division. BFPO 106 cover.

BFPS 7080 - 1 Apr 88 - 10th Anniversary Ulster Defence Regiment - Soldiers of the Crown cover.

BFPS 7777 - HM The Queen Review of British Army at Sennels Germany with 9p Silver Jubilee stamp.

BFPS 7777 - As above but full set of 5 silver Jubilee stamps.

BFPS 8848 - 1 Mar 76 - British Army and Royal Nepalese Army Everest Exhibition Cover No.1.

BFPS 9677 - 9 June 77 - The Prince of Wales Division Beating the Retreat postmark on 8½p Silver Jubilee stamp. Beating the Retreat - black cachet. Salute taken by HRH The Prince of Wales 9 Jun 77.