Postcards of the East Africa Campaign
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Postcards from the East Africa Campaign (World War I) & St. Helena. - One Album
Description : A collection of vintage postcards in one album.
All of the postcards have been loosely inserted (no glue invloved)
48 x Black and white (including one used, colour one), unused postcards, relating to the East Africa Campaign.
Publisher unknown. I am also not sure if this is a complete series or not.
3 x Black and White post cards in the rear of St. Helena :
Napoleon's House.
Napoleon's Tomb.
The Ladder, St. Helena.
Many loose postcards (some used) of London, Victoria Falls etc..
The East African Campaign was a series of battles and guerrilla actions which started in German East Africa and ultimately impacted portions of Northern Rhodesia, British East Africa, Uganda, and the Belgian Congo. The German colonial forces, led by Lieutenant Colonel Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, fought for the duration of World War I and surrendered only after that war had ended. - Sourced from Wikipedia.
Saint Helena, is an island of volcanic origin and a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. The territory of Saint Helena consists of both the island of Saint Helena, and also the dependencies of Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha.
The island has a history of over 500 years since it was first discovered as an uninhabited island by the Portuguese in 1502. It is Britain's second oldest remaining colony (after Bermuda). Saint Helena is one of the most isolated islands in the world and was for several centuries of vital strategic importance to ships sailing to Europe from Asia and South Africa. For several centuries, the British used the island as a place of exile, most notably for Napoleon Bonaparte, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo and over 5,000 Boer prisoners - Sourced from Wikipedia.
