British post offices abroad
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Great Britain has introduced postal services throughout the world and has often made use of British definitives bearing local overprints. The following is a full list of British postal services abroad:
  • British Post Abroad
    • British post offices abroad
    • British post offices in Africa
      British post offices in Africa
      The British post offices in Africa were a system of post offices set up by the United Kingdom to be used by its Middle East Forces and East Africa Forces in Africa during and after World War II.- Middle East Forces :...

       various issues
    • Baghdad (British Occupation) 1917 only
    • Bangkok (British Post Office)
      British post office in Bangkok
      The earliest recorded mail from Bangkok dates back only to 1836 when American missionary Dan Beach Bradley sent a letter to his father in a stampless cover...

      1882 - 1885
    • Batum (British Occupation) 1919 - 1920
    • Beirut (British Post Office) 1906 only
    • British post offices in the Turkish Empire 1885 - 1923
    • British postal agencies in Eastern Arabia 1948 - 1966
    • Bushire (British Occupation) 1915 only
    • Cameroons (British Occupation) 1915 only
    • China (British Post Offices)
      British post offices in China
      The British post offices in China were a system of post offices set up by the United Kingdom in various treaty ports of China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries....

      1917 - 1930
    • China (British Railway Administration) 1901 only
    • Crete (British Post Offices) 1898 - 1899
    • East Africa Forces 1943 - 1948
    • British post in Egypt (Consular Offices) 1839 - 1882
    • British post in Egypt (British Military Occupation) 1882 - 1914
    • Egypt (British Forces) 1932 - 1943
    • Eritrea (British Administration) 1950 - 1952
    • Eritrea (British Military Administration) 1948 - 1950
    • German East Africa (British Occupation) 1917 only
    • Iraq (British Occupation) 1918 – 1923
    • Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation) 1946 - 1949
    • Japan (British Post Offices) 1859 - 1879
    • Long Island (British Occupation) 1916 only
    • Mafia Island (British Occupation) 1915 - 1916
    • Malaya (British Military Administration) 1945 - 1948
    • Middle East Forces (MEF) 1942 - 1947
    • Morocco Agencies
      British post offices in Morocco
      The British post offices in Morocco, also known as the "Morocco Agencies", were a system of post offices operated by the United Kingdom in Morocco.-First office:...

      1898 - 1957
    • North Borneo (BMA) 1945 only
    • Salonika (British Field Office) 1916 only
    • Sarawak (BMA) 1945 only
    • Somalia (British Administration) 1950 only
    • Somalia (British Military Administration) 1948 - 1950
    • Tangier 1927 - 1957
    • Tripolitania (British Administration) 1950 - 1952
    • Tripolitania (British Military Administration) 1948 - 1950

Sources

  • Stanley Gibbons Ltd: various catalogues
  • Encyclopaedia of Postal History
  • Rossiter, Stuart
    Stuart Rossiter
    Percival "Stuart" Bryce Rossiter was a renowned British philatelist and postal historian who wrote extensively about British postal history and postage stamps of British colonies in Africa and was actively involved in numerous philatelic institutions...

    & John Flower. The Stamp Atlas. London: Macdonald, 1986. ISBN 0356108627
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