Department of Posts personnel are commissioned into the army to take care of APS . The Base Circle is headed by an Additional Director General, Army Postal Service holding the rank of a Major general.
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At their destination, the negatives were printed on photographic paper and delivered as airgraph letters through the normal Royal Engineers ( Postal Section )-also known as the Army Postal Services ( APS )-systems.
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The RE ( PS ) operated in all theatres of war and where expedient their service was dovetailed into the services of the Dominion troops ( principally Australian, Canadian, Indian and New Zealand army postal services ).
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Mr Mellersh was to play a significant part in the establishment of a dedicated Army Postal Service, as he was to become a member of a joint War Office and Post Office committee set up in 1876 to investigate the viability of such post service.
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Lieutenant Colonel R . E . Evans, Royal Engineers, Assistant Director Army Postal Service Middle East Force ( MEF ), proposed that a lightweight self-sealing letter card that weighed only 1 / 10 oz be adopted by the British Army for air mail purposes.
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By January the following year, General Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, the Commander-in-Chief, MEF was told by Eden that " " Your Assistant Director Army Postal Services may forthwith introduce an Air Mail Letter Card Service for the Middle East.
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Virk was an officer with the Indian Army Post Office from 1939 . He built reference collections for the Indian Army Postal Service and wrote on the Indian Army Post Offices 1939 1947, Postal Censorship in India 1939 1945, the Military Campaigns Sikkim-Tibet 1903 1908, and on the Chinese Expeditionary Force 1903 1923.
