BWISC Bulletin No 16 - January 1958


JAMAICA

Gibraltar Camp P.O.

"Further to my notes in Bulletin No. 12. p. 8. I would like to clarify the point that the occupants were evacuated from the Rock of Gibraltar at the beginning of the War, not from the camp in Jamaica. This evacuation probably led to the naming of the camp. Additional information has now come to light to the effect that the internees of the camp, together with the guards and their families, sailed for Hamburg in February or March 1947. The internees disembarked al Hamburg and the guards with their families returned to their homes in Gibraltar, the evacuation period having ended. This emptied the camp in Jamaica and the Post 0ffice was probably closed at that time.

Since writing my original notes I have obtained a cover from an inmate of the camp addressed to a person in Scotland. This bears a circular mark 35 mm. in diameter with the words ' Gibraltar ' at the top and 'Camp' at the bottom on the front in black. It seems to be another type of Unit mark as it is cancelled in Kingston 15 MAY 1942. Whilst the majority of Service mail was handed in at Cross Roads P.O.' some was taken direct to the P.O. at Kingston."

(Contributed by Mr. W. H. H. Crow.)

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