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e full military particulars of the addressee, viz:-Regimental number, rank, name, squadron, battery or company, battalion, regiment (or other unit), staff appointment or department, and title of

fice is quite a large concern and has a vast amount of clerical work to perform. In it letters are sorted, letters taking precedence over all other mail matter, after which the newspapers, and lastly the parcels are dealt with. Accounts of all the branch post offices are filed and the general r

f men away from their units in hospital, and these hospital rolls are revised weekly. Here also records have to be kept of the movements of the

eral kinds of field post offices; those "with train" are attached to the headquarters of each train, and handle the letters of the units served by the train. Branch field post offices are attached to the general headqua

to organise the service, and to supply to the various offices the information necessary to ensure the proper circulation of the mails. This, especially in a campa

e Crimean War (Fig. 20). Special navy post offices were in the early days established by local postmasters at various ports as a link between the land service and the Fleet in ho