Philately: ASIA single lots including Special Catalog Malaya Auction #39 Day 3

China - Taiwan (Formosa): 1943. Prisoner of War 1st Taiwan card dated '25/7/ 1943' headed 'Service D
1943. Prisoner of War 1st Taiwan card dated '25/7/ 1943' headed 'Service Des Prisonniers de Guerre ' addressed to Norwood, London written by Signalman May, Taiwan Prisoner 's Camp with framed 'Taiwan Furyo Shuyosho' (Taiwan POW Camp) in violet and circular "Nakajima" censor seal in red with framed 'Crown/Passed/PW. 3851' censor on arrival. Signalman May was taken Prisoner by the Japanese with the fall of Singapore Feb 15th 1942' and brought to Taiwan with 500 hundred other British POW's on the 'Dai Nichi Maru’ at first to 'Taichu Camp No 2’ and later to Taihoku Camp No 6’ when he wrote this card. Superb.