June 2010

Your browser does not seem to support iframes. Click here to read this PDF. Convert your PDF to digital flipbook ↗ Contents June 2010 Committee; Deadline for next Polar Post; Dates for your diary; Back issues of Polar Post; Note on Copyright 30 Chairman’s Message; Membership Update; Obituaries – Warrant Offi cer Alf Amphlett and Dr Phillip Law 31 The PPHSGB Cambridge Residential Weekend 9th to 11th October 2009 Part 3 – Members Entertain Continued 32 TAAF Ship Movements November and December 2009 35 1907-1909 British Antarctic “Nimrod” Expedition Part 7 – Sub-Offi ce Letter-Bill and Registered Letter Book N° 7 36 Obscure Polar Facts – Shackleton in Northern Russia 1918-1919 38 British Army Post Offi ces in North Russia 1918-19 39 It Could Have Been The First B.A.T. Commemorative – 1963 Red Cross Centenary 40 Arctic – Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) – Garde cotière canadienne (GCC) 41 Antarctic Postcards Update N°2 44 Captain Scott’s Last Antarctic Expedition 1909 to 1913 – Part 3 46 “Aurora Feared Lost” – from the Philatelic Magazine, January 1st 1918, page 10 47 New Issue – South Georgia & SSI – Cephalopods – The Waters of South Georgia 48 New Issue – South Georgia & SSI – London 2010 Festival of Stamps 49 New Issue – The Falkland Islands – The Recovery of the ss Great Britain 50 New Issue – The Falkland Islands – London 2010 Festival of Stamps – The Few – The Battle of Britain 10 July 1940 to 31 October 1940 51 New Issues – PPR&G 2009 – Abkhazia – Transnistria – South Ossetia 51 Minutes of the AGM of the PPHSGB held on 27th February 2010; Chairman’s Review 2009 52 Secretary’s Report for 2009 53 PPHSGB Accounts for the Year ending 31st December 2009; Treasurer’s Report 2009 54 Reports of the Editor of Polar Post, the Membership Secretary and the Auctioneer for 2009 55 PPHSGB at SWINPEX 2010 – Saturday 12th June 2010 – 10 am to 4.30 pm 56 PPHSGB – Membership Subscription Rates Increase from 1st January 2011 56