Postage Stamps of The United Kingdom - British Postal Services Abroad

British Postal Services Abroad

The United Kingdom has introduced postal services throughout the world and has often made use of British definitives bearing local overprints. The following is a full list of British postal services abroad and many of these will become the subject of independent articles in due course:

  • British post offices abroad
  • British post offices in Africa various issues
  • Baghdad (British Occupation) 1917 only
  • Bangkok (British Post Office) 1882 - 1885
  • Batum (British Occupation) 1919 - 1920
  • Beirut (British Post Office) 1906 only
  • British post offices in the Turkish Empire 1885 - 1923
  • British postal agencies in Eastern Arabia 1948 - 1966
  • Bushire (British Occupation) 1915 only
  • Cameroons (British Occupation) 1915 only
  • China (British Post Offices) 1917 - 1930
  • China (British Railway Administration) 1901 only
  • Crete (British Post Offices) 1898 - 1899
  • Cyprus (British Administration) 1880
  • East Africa Forces 1943 - 1948
  • Egypt (British Forces) 1932 - 1943
  • Eritrea (British Administration) 1950 - 1952
  • Eritrea (British Military Administration) 1948 - 1950
  • German East Africa (British Occupation) 1917 only
  • Iraq (British Occupation) 1918–1923
  • Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation) 1946 - 1949
  • Japan (British Post Offices) 1859 - 1879
  • Long Island (British Occupation) 1916 only
  • Madagascar (British Consular Mail) 1884 - 1895
  • Mafia Island (British Occupation) 1915 - 1916
  • Malaya (British Military Administration) 1945 - 1948
  • Middle East Forces (MEF) 1942 - 1947
  • Morocco Agencies 1898 - 1957
  • North Borneo (BMA) 1945 only
  • Salonika (British Field Office) 1916 only
  • Sarawak (BMA) 1945 only
  • Somalia (British Administration) 1950 only
  • Somalia (British Military Administration) 1948 - 1950
  • Tangier 1927 - 1957
  • Tripolitania (British Administration) 1950 - 1952
  • Tripolitania (British Military Administration) 1948 - 1950

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