Lot No. 1785
Auction No. | 24 |
Category |
First Day Cover Australia |
Est. | $40 |
Status | SOLD $150 |
1956 (30th Nov) 2/- Olympic Games green on illust First Day Card & hand addressed to "Miss V Bullwinkle, R.G. Hospital, Heidelberg". Neat "Philatelic Bureau Melbourne" cds. Vivian Bullwinkle was a WWII Australian nurse & the only survivor from the Japanese massacre when 22 other nurses were bayonetted & machine gunned on Radji Beach on Banka Island in Sumatra in 1942. Good cond.
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