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1st BAT'i. “NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE” REQt. B A R B A D O S

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r Lieut. Col.
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I»t Batt. Forth Staffordshire Beg*.

A specially printed envelope for the 1st Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment addressed to South
Wales. It was from Colour Sergeant Grant and was signed by his Commanding Officer and therefore
entitled to the Id rate Soldiers Letter. It was franked with a i d rose from the keyplate set cancelled by a
bootheel duplex on 21st August 1886. It was probably carried by an R.M.S.P steamer and was back stamped
in Merthyr Tydvil on 6th September, a transit of 16 days, The North Staffs went out to Barbados in 1884.
After two years without incident they were transferred to South Africa for operations in Zululand. Ex
Charles Freeland.

An envelope from Hanschell & Co. addressed to Vannes in France carefully franked with adhesives
to the value of 7 Yid, three times the U.P.U. rate. These were cancelled by a bootheel duplex on 31st
December 1892. It is difficult to see how such a flimsy envelope could have weighed 1 Vi ounces. The
cover was back stamped in London on 11th January 1893 but there is no arrival information in France.