Newsletter & Journal ‘Camel Post’
The Newsletter is published in January and July each year (alternating with the journal). It contains news, notices and reports of meetings, minutes, auction information, details of future events, new members, publications and other items not destined for the journal.
Camel Post, the official journal of the Sudan Study Group, is published twice yearly, in April and October. It contains articles written by members and other contributors on a wide range of subjects about the philately and postal history of the Sudan.
The journal was awarded a silver-gilt medal in the Literature Class at the National Philatelic Exhibition, Harrogate in 2008. An index of articles from issue No 1 (1977) until 2005 is available to members. The contents of recent issues of Camel Post are set out below:
Spring 2009 - CP 79Avis de Recéption – an Update by Paul Grigg; A registered cover rejected by the Austrian Customs Authorities by Richard Stock; A letter from a German Sausage by John Scott; Better and faster than the postal service – the telegraph by Colin Narbeth; Sudan Air Mail – Kosti White Nile CDS (Stagg type 61) by Brian Jones; Datestamps with the letter ‘T’ below or after the office name by Richard Stock; An obsessive study of AS puncture variations by Bill Barclay; A favourite cover by Paul Grigg; Sudan: Postal Cancellations of the Civilian Post Offices and Postal Agencies1867-2005, Group O – Oval Cancellations; Why I collect Sudan by R. S. Mason. |
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Autumn 2008 – CP 78A promotional letter from Imperial Airways by Paul Grigg; Avis de Réception by Paul Grigg; Recent stamp issues from Sudan by Ian Sutherland; An unusual paquebot item by Paul Grigg; A registered airmail FDC – Vienna to Khartoum by Brian Jones; 1931-37 airmail dies by Brian Jones; Postal cancellations of the civilian post offices and postal agencies 1867-2005, the larger offices N – Z by Richard Stock; Covers from a WW2 police officer in the Sudan by Colin Narbeth; The third camel postman issue: unrecorded proofs by Richard Stock; No.14 Combined Indian General Hospital (revisited) by Richard Stock. |
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Spring 2008 – CP 77Censorship of mail during the first Arab-Israeli war by Richard Stock; Recent stamp issues from Sudan by Ian Sutherland; Gedaref sub-office by Richard Stock; A tentative list of Dutch flights to and from Sudan and of mails from the Netherlands for first flights to Sudan by Brian Gardner; A new Khartoum postmark by Richard Stock; Postal cancellations of the civilian post offices and postal agencies 1867-2005, the larger offices A – M by Richard Stock; A siege card from General Gordon in Khartoum by Colin Narbeth; A cover from the general manager, Sudan Government Railways and Steamers by Paul Grigg; The 3 piastres ‘Not Valid for Postage’ by Colin Narbeth; A censored registered airmail cover from Mozambique by Richard Stock; A new Atbara-Port Sudan TPO by Richard Stock; ArmyTelegraph stamps – a cancellation mystery by Andy Neal and Bill Barclay; A postcard from the Belgian Congo via French Congo and the Sudan to France by Richard Stock; No. 14 Combined Indian General Hospital by Richard Stock. |
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Autumn 2007 – CP 76Derby 2007 Project – Sudan Defence Force Numbered Cancellations by Colin Narbeth; The Harry Welchman Memoir; Recent Stamp Issues from Sudan by Ian Sutherland; A “Found Open and Officially Sealed” label that went a long way round by Andy Neal; Postal Stationery News – 12 by Paul Grigg; The Sir John Inglefield-Watson Collections at Spink – Auction Realisations and Review; “Nahman” covers by Paul Grigg; All for One Penny by Jim Scannell; Telegraph Postal Markings by Andy Neal. |
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Spring 2007 – CP 75Lt. Col. Sir John Inglefield-Watson Bt., an appreciation; Recent Stamp Issues from Sudan by Ian Sutherland; 20th Anniversary of Sudan Airways by Brian Jones; Too Late and Late Fee Mail by Richard Stock; A Large Camel Forgery Conundrum by Andy Neal; A new T.P.O? by Richard Stock; Another new T.P.O? by Richard Stock; 1927: First Kenya-Sudan Air Mail by John Inglefield-Watson; On Active Service No Stamps Available by Colin Narbeth; The Sudan Section of the John Daynes Collection of 20th Century Military Postal History; The Machell Correspondence by Richard Stock; A Sudan Study Group Forerunner? by Anton Jansen. |
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Autumn 2006 – CP 74The British Army Post Office with the 1885 Suakin Expedition by Richard Wilson; Recent Stamp Issues from Sudan by Ian Sutherland; 2005 Derby Conference Study Topic part 3 by Brian Jones; Postmark Collators Report – Equatoria East & West by John Lilley; Khartoum Postmark Forgeries by Colin Narbeth; Queries, Postmarks & Responses to Articles. |
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Spring 2006 – CP 73Recent Stamp issues from Sudan by Ian Sutherland; 2005 Derby Conference Study Topic Part 2 by Brian Jones; Collators Report - Northern Darfur by Paul Grigg; The Camel Postman 1898-1956 - A Stampex Exhibit by Brian Gardner; The malformed ‘G’ Variety on O.S.G.S. Overprinted Stamps by Richard Stock; Postage Due Update by Paul Grigg; The Anley Correspondence - A Short Note by Richard Stock; A Word on the Wolseleys by John Scott; Original Photographs for the 1951 Pictorials by Dickon Pollard; Italian Military Mail from Sudan during World War 2 - a Query by Alan Morvay; A Letter from General Gordon in Khartoum Smuggled through the Dervish lines by Colin Narbeth; Postmark Project - An Update by Richard Stock. |
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Autumn 2005 – CP 722005 Derby Conference Study Topic Report by Brian Jones; The Canadian Contingent of Voyageurs Revisited by Richard Stock; Mail and Telegraph Offices in the Sudan 2005 by Jack Davies; Paquebot by Paul Grigg; The Anley Correspondence (Part 1) by Richard Stock; Recent Stamp Issues from Sudan by Ian Sutherland. |
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