Type 2 (_Figs._ 25, 26). Commonly without the year being noted, as in the first illustration but also found with the year as in the second illustration of this mark. It has been largely supposed, but without much, if any, foundation that these year-less marks originated in Ladysmith during the siege, but little correspondence can have been passed out of the town during that period, and the origin of many of these marks is known _not_ to have been Ladysmith. [Illustration: 28 29 30 31 32] Type 3 (_Fig._ 27). Used in sub-offices supplementary to type 1, found stamped in blue-green as well as in black. Office numbers 41-60. Type 4 (_Fig._ 28). Used in Base Office at Cape Town. Type 5 (_Fig._ 29). A locally made rubber-stamp cancellation found in several sub-varieties. Type 6 (_Fig._ 30). Used in the field post offices attached to the Natal Field Force with name of place or number. Type 7 is similar to type 2 but lettered NATAL FIELD FORCE, found in black and in violet. Type 8, a newspaper cancellation, with NFF (Natal Field Force) in white letters on a black ground, circular shape. [Illustration: 30A 32A.] Type 9 (_Fig._ 30A). A thick lined circle, 20 mm. in diameter, lettered F.P.O. (Field Post Office) and a number, also used for newspapers. Type 10. An almost circular obliteration lettered P.O.A. (Post Office, Africa) with the number 43, a bracket at each side and two thick bars at top and at bottom. Type 11 (_Fig._ 31). Used in travelling post offices (T.P.O.), struck in black or violet. The travelling post offices are "EAST NO. 1," "MIDLAND," "WESTERN," and "NORTHERN." Type 12 (_Fig._ 32). For fixed army post offices in Orange River Colony and Transvaal, used from about the end of 1901 and for a short time after the declaration of peace. A fancy type of town postmark is shown in _Fig._ 32A. Another interesting postmark relic of the war in South Africa is one struck in red "RECOVERED FROM WRECK OF MEXICAN" a ship which was returning from South Africa with mails from the troops, and which foundered after collision with the ss. _Winkfield._ The bulk of the mail was recovered. THE GREAT WAR, 1914. The Army Postal Service with the British Expeditionary Force on the Continent in the present war is under the command of Colonel W. Price, C.M.G., who as Captain Price had the long experience of service with the Army Post Office in South Africa. It is scarcely necessary to say that the volume of correspondence now being dealt with by the service is unprecedented in the history of the British Army. In the early months of the war the outgoing mail to the Army Base Post Office in France averaged 12,000 parcels and 250,000 to 300,000 letters a day. It is impossible to give statistics of the number of branch offices of all grades established, but already there are many interesting postmarks originating with the British Army in France. The various types of marks so far recorded are:-- Army Base Post Office (_Fig._ 33).