10.12.1943 Christmas card sent from 11.Schiffs-Stamm-Abteilung to Zagreb Croatia. Sender is a Croatian sailor training with 11. S.ST.Ab located in Stralsund on the Baltic sea. Navy personel was sent to Kriegsmarine schools in Germany and later in 1944 in Netherland. Croatian naval legion personel was mostly there as Croatian Navy formation in Adriatic sea was blocked by Italians until their surrender. Total number of Croats trained by Kriegsmarine is unknown to me.
SMS SANKT GEORG was armoured cruiser with complement of 629 men, ship became (in)famous in February 1918 as it was center of Cattaro sailors mutiny
Seventh card and also the last one in small Croatian Feldpost collection mailed by poručnik Vladimir Poznić from II.bojna, 9.gorska pukovnija, II.gorski zdrug to his familiy in Zagreb.
09.10.1944 card mailed from Pazarić, Bosnia to Zagreb with clearly visible postmark Pazarić. Purple cancel Zap. III dom. zbornog područja , means Headquarters of III Domobran military district.
Printed card DOPISNICA ZA BOJU POŠTU or military mail card was used , this type (in my opinion) is one of the rarest of all printed croatian military cards.
Sixth card in small Croatian Feldpost collection mailed by
poručnik Vladimir Poznić from II.bojna, 9.gorska pukovnija, II.gorski
zdrug to his familiy in Zagreb and Osijek.
27.09.1944 civilian postal card mailed from Pazarić, Bosnia to Osijek via German Feldpost.
Croatian civilan cards used for Croatian military mail and posted in Croatia via German Feldpost are extremely rare !!
Fifth card in small Croatian Feldpost collection mailed by poručnik Vladimir Poznić from II.bojna, 9.gorska pukovnija, II.gorski zdrug to his familiy in Zagreb.
12.08.1944 card mailed from Pazarić, Bosnia to Zagreb.There is no visible postmark or censor cancel, but nice military cancel in green colour is present, that reads Stožer 9.gorske pukovnije (Headquarters of 9th mountain regiment)
Rare Feldpost bilingual card written in Croatian/German was used.
Fourth card in small Croatian Feldpost collection mailed by poručnik Vladimir Poznić from II.bojna, 9.gorska pukovnija, II.gorski zdrug to his familiy in Zagreb.
20.06.1944 card mailed from Bradina, Bosnia to Zagreb, round censor mark CENZURA 21 ZAGREB . Censor marks on Croatian Feldpost
are not common. In May or June 1944 rectangular censor cancels were replaced by round ones which have city names on them.
Third card in small Croatian Feldpost collection mailed by poručnik Vladimir Poznić from II.bojna, 9.gorska pukovnija, II.gorski zdrug to his familiy in Zagreb.
01.03.1944 card mailed from Hadžiči to Zagreb with smudged postmark , but censor mark CENZURA 146 is very clear. Cancel CENZURA 146 was used in Sarajevo censor office. Censor marks on Croatian Feldpost are not common
Second card in small Croatian Feldpost collection mailled by poručnik Vladimir Poznić from II.bojna, 9.gorska pukovnija, II.gorski zdrug to his familiy in Zagreb.
01.03.1944 card mailed from Hadžiči to Zagreb without visible postmark , but censor mark CENZURA 69 is present, this means that card was in postal service. Cancel CENZURA 69 was used in Zagreb censor office. Censor marks on Croatian Feldpost are not common.
Small Croatian Feldpost collection follows in next posts, seven cards that were mailed by poručnik (lieutenent) Vladimir Poznić pobočnik(Adjutant) II.bojne, 9.gorske pukovnije, II.gorskog zdruga (2nd batallion, 9th mountain regiment, 2nd mountain brigade) domobranstva to his familiy in Zagreb and Osijek.
14.11.1943 card mailed by civilian post office Hadžiči(rare cancel in purple) near Sarajevo to Osijek.
9.gorska pukovnija was formed from 9.pješačka pukovnija around October of 1943 and fought in Bosnia.
27.02.1942 card mailed from Vienna, Luftgau Flakartillerieschule 17 to Zagreb, card was not forwarded to Croatia and is marked zuruck-unzulassig( return-invalid).
Nice units cancel on the front and back of the cover.
Croatian soldiers were granted free post to Croatia on 23.06.1942. This card was mailed before this grant and postage should have been paid as it was mailed by civilian post, and was refused by the Reich postal service. Feldpost was free of charge.
23.03.1944 Feldpost letter from Fp.59735D - Gendarmerie-Hauptmannschaft Banja-Luka to Mertingen bei Augsburg , Reich. Text in German . This is the first card i have ever seen mailed from Gendarmerie-Hauptmannschaft Banja-Luka.
18.04.1916 feldpost card from SMS'Reka' to Šibenik via Marinefeldpostamt Pola. Bordstempel Sms Reka in purple, nice cancel in black 'Kriegshafenkommando Pola.' The ship was was doing convoy escort in January and February 1916 on relation Šibenik-Metković , returning to Pola on 26th February in stormy weather it run aground on Veruda island near Pula. The ship was on repairs in Pula until 23rd May 1916 , this card is from that time. Complement was 5 officers and 65 men.
