I routinely suggest that those interested in Fieldpost should join the ArGe, and I add to that that they should then borrow the entire journal and read it! Most issues have ArGe news & gossip, questions and some answers, etc. A good place to start for those contemplating this collecting area (provided you can read German; if you cannot you will be seriously impeded) is their 1997 Festschrift KuK Feld & Zensurpost: ein Sammlegebeit stellt sich vor in which 24 articles (mostly short), many with spectacular colour illustrations, show off aspects of the topic.
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Issue 56: cancels handbook supplement; FRANCO cancels from WW1 Bosnia; Read your Fieldpost; Jasna Gora; Postsperren; views on Flyspeck Philately; DUPLIKAT cachet.
Issue 57: Programme for their week-long annual meeting; free and otherwise fieldpost in WW1; Turkey-Switzerland post 1914-18; Militärpflege cards.
Issue 58: Fieldpost Postanwiesung control stamps; Feldkirch WWI censor markings; Marine Feldpost forgeries; Albania 1916-18.
Supplement: Torpedo Boat cachets nos 21 - 80.
Issue 59: Fieldpost cards with large NUBOIS cachet; a U-29 cancel; the 1914 Fieldpost regulations; Fieldpostoffice money order cancel numbers cross-reference table; new discoveries on the issue date of the 1918 Karlfonds stamps.
Issue 60: German fieldpost in WWI; Isonzo Front gas detachment; FPO 159; new Hungarian censor mark.
Issue 61: cancels handbook 18th supplement; cancels of Italian post in post-23.5.1915 occupied area (eg Gradisca); WWI military post between Austria and Switzerland; Postanwiesungskontrollstempel; Clement's Fieldpost 1914/18 available (in photocopy?); German WWI fieldpost (cont).
Supplement: Torpedo Boat cachets nos 81 - 100.
Issue 62: Newspapers & Fieldpost; the Karlfonds saga; 'Rainer II' (fieldpost cancels handbook)?
Issue 63: KuK Hauptfeldpostamt 351; "censoring" by producers of important materials (eg iron) 1914-18 - 22pp by H Thielk
Censorship of civil post in Austria-Hungary 1914-1918: H Thielk. Second, enlarged edition; 474 pages A5. An update of APS Library item 174.
Issue 64: Obituary of Horst Thielk; what's a Malaria-Marschkompagnie?; Knockaloe (Isle of Man) POW Camp mail; Territorial-Truppen (6pp); revenue stamps on Fieldpost packet cards (5pp); etc
Issue 65: Mysteries: (1) double-ringed Z on ?1916 card from KuK Krankenzug 20 (2) 1915 Donnerstagbeforderung (3) KuK Kommando der Gruppe 'P' from FPO 534 in spring of 1918; Marschbatallione; Knockaloe POW camp; discrepancies between sender-address and cancel FPO number (8% of 1100 items examined); reply-paid Feldpost cards (a) examples (b) statistics from Sarajevo
Issue 66: On Malaria-Marschkompanien; SW-Bataillonen; Knockaloe (IOM) and Stobs POW camps; Marinefeldpost forgeries; FPO 18 in 1918??; KuK Military Pigeon Post (6pp incl cachets); etc
Issue 67: trip to Gallipoli being organised; curious cancels (eg Ortsgruppen-kommando; Bauleitung 'P'; KuK Austung Telegrafendetachement Sofia; and the somewhat grim-sounding Schlachtfelder-Aufräumings-Kommando); info on the SW-Bataillonen; cancels from Miechow, Wolbrom and Olkusz from Sep 1914; Siberia 1918-1920; POW mail from camps in England; military pigeon mail and photography; new book on 1914-18 Paketpost; etc.
Issue 68: Meetings reports, members birthdays, wants etc; Gruppe L again; FPA212; FPAs 378, 389, 600 in Warsaw; book reviews; etc
Issue 69: Kuk Kriegsmarine cancellations catalogue to be issued; MB's birthday; wants & offers; FPO608/R; the China Batteries; list of locations of KuK Reservespitals; HFPA1100 forgery; review of 'Montenegran and Albanian cablecars 1914-18'; the B&H armoured trains; 'I am well' cards; etc etc.
Issue 70: Q&A; Bodenbach; Russian POWs in Kärnten; Hungarian-German 3pp mini-dictionary; WWI censorship by police in Böhmen and Mahren; WWI A-H hospitals etc in Turkey; censorship of picture-postcards sent abroad; Prekmurje; a 1916 parcel card to Wollersdorf; FPO832 and FPO62 forgeries; etc
Issue 71: AGM and meeting reports; Q&As; the Viribus Unitis; WWI censorship of picture-postcards sent abroad; FPO378 in Warsaw; Przemysl Regulations; book reviews and special offers; etc
Issue 72: Autumn meeting in Innsbruck (overlaps with the Merkurfest); Bodenbach Station - a German enclave; unusual cachets; U-boats & Pola; Sep 1914 Brasso censor mark; the Isle of Ada-Kaleh; Fieldpost in Switzerland; book reviews and special offers; 2nd edition of 'Przemysl' by Franz Forstner; etc
Issue 73: Autumn meeting in Innsbruck; news, comment, small ads; many small questions and smaller answers; FPA96; Railway troops; book reviews; etc
Issue 74: [Lost in the post?]
Issue 75: 1917 letter with correct franking of 68Kr40; Clement medal to Kallis & Kohl; their Innsbruck event; Qs & As; Postanweisungscontrollestempel in occupied Italy; Tirol military medical arrangements 1914-18
Issue 76: greetings & meetings; interesting additions to library; Qs & illustrated As; "P I" censor marks from POW camps in Italy; on the Italian campaign; supplement to catalogue of military medical arrangements 1914-18; the KuK Marine Academy; Postanweisungscontrollestempel in Bosnia-Herzegovina; auction report; book reviews. With 16pp auction list.
Issue 77: annual get-together (7 days!); Depositenabteilung; Kriegsspital VI; Marine Feldbach; Stampless Nachfrageschreiben; Etappenpost at Lesch, Albania; handwritten "Inhibiert"; Kriegspressequartier der kuk Armee 1914-18; FPA 1087 forgeries; two new Postanweisingskontrollstempel in Albania and Montenegro; auction report; book reviews.
Issue 78: Volunteer wanted to take over the Fieldpost Cancellation Handbook; news of members & their successes; Qs & As; which POW camp are these photos of; Marburg censor cancel forgery?;military mail with postage dues; cachet from a military pigeon-post station in Trient in 1916; Postanweisungs-, Postsparkasse- & Tarn-stempel in Bosnia-Herzegowina (9pp); organisation & departments of the War Ministry.
Issue 79: AGM; members (from GB) evicted for unpaid subs; Qs & As; Heimkehrer (POW homecomer) mail; Albanian topics; pigeon-post cachets.
Issue 80: News and age distribution of members; Gervay medal for Dip Ing H Rainer; exhibition for 90th anniversary of Przemysl; "we have a library please use it"; Qs & As; various forgeries esp. WWI Airmails; Die Ueberreuter-Korrespondenz; Albanian Postanweisung telegramme; a way to organise a Fieldpost collection; reviews.
Issue 81: [posted from France!] AGM & excursion to Romania; members' wants; Qs&As; the Marineunteroffiziers school; mail from Jasna Góra; a letter to FML Scotti censored against the regulations; WWI Feldpost to Vorarlberg; news on FPA 451 (Constantinopel); table by H Riedel listing the Field Post Offices for each Infantry Regiment in 1914-18; antigas shelter for mail-carrying pigeons; Brian Presland's amazing discovery; book reviews (including our Pneumatic Post!); etc etc.
Issue 82: [posted from Breclav!] news of meetings, members' successes etc; WWI FPOs used by German forces; Qs&As; W-cachets; more on FPA 451; Etappenpostamt 183 subtypes; U-boat construction in Pola; list of their available and sold-out books.
Issue 83:: useful-books list; Romania-trip report (one face looks strangely familiar…); members' wants; Answers (!) and more Questions; 'ZENSURIERT / K.u.k. Militärzens' forgery; list of Field hospitals etc in Romania in 1916-18; private registered letters in the occupied bits of Italy in 1918; P.W. cachet on fieldpost (= Polnischer Wehrmacht); FPA 451 in Constantinopel; FPA 205; Kriegsbrückenequipagen; book reviews; etc.
Issue 84:: details of their week-long Annual Outing, to Radmannsdorf in Slovenia; members' wants; Answers and more Questions; Fliegerkompagnie 15 field-postcards; dateline Sarajevo, 28 June 1914; 10K Feldpost stamp correctly used on a money letter; South-west front disposition in 1915; FPA 205; the CORIAC system for coding censor marks; book reviews; etc.
Issue 85:: members' wants; Questions and colour-illustrated Answers; Albanian OeUMO overprints; Thalerhof camp; what's a Trandafilspital?; censoring in occupied Poland, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania; 'B' and 'K' cachets; FPAs 205, 451, 451; Marinepost forgeries; U-boat construction in Pola; FPAs of the Infantry Regiments, 1914-18 (a 4-page list); etc
Issue 86: Annual-outing report; birthdays; queries; Fieldpost in the Krakau area; many 1-page articles on unusual items (illustrated in colour).
Issue 87: Sales, wants, meetings and birthdays; wants, queries & answers; military hospitals on the S W Front; preparations for the S E Front, 1915 (many maps); more about Przemysl (by KT); book reviews
Issue 88: news about members; queries & answers; censored packet cards??; 1918 arrangements for Ukraine food: postal spin-offs; more about Przemysl; KuK Militär Polizei; forged Feld- and Etappen-post cancels; book reviews
Issue 89: news; programme for their week-long annual gathering (!); numerous queries & answers (including POW camps in India & Cylon); FPO numbers;
Issue 90: news, awards gained, birthday greetings; numerous queries & answers; packet censoring; 1914-18 COD packets; the Great Wollersdorf Explosion (18.6.1917); Przemysl to Siberia and back (POW cards); FPO numbers; book reviews
Issue 91: news, AGM, birthday greetings; numerous illustrated queries & answers; "Beutekarten" fieldpost; SMS Nautilus and mail from it when in the far East; Military Hospital nr 5 at Favoriten; on apparently Red Cross "Narodny Politika" labels; WWI-era newspaper "Die Feldpost"; book reviews etc. Also several adverts in colour.
Issue 92: Notes, questions, answers; numerous 1-page articles; On the removal of postage stamps from Packet Cards [The article relates to the removal of (mainly high value) postage stamps from cards by post office employees (primarily for sale to the trade & collectors). This was made fairly easy in that the cards were retained by the post office rather than being delivered to the addressee. Regulations (reproduced) were promulgated to try to stop this practice. Cachets and labels were also utilised in an attempt to discourage it.]
Issue 93: Notes, questions, answers. "Happy 60th to the APS". Artillery: the weapons and the cards. Opera Bonomelli; Generalgouvernment Warschau censoring; German- and Austrian-U-boats in the Med in WWI; the Szurmay-Korps; book reviews (including the APS Festschrift).
Issue 94: Paketpost (5pp) by de Belllis; numerous queries, all with colour illustrations; Jägertruppe etc (9pp); Feldpost from Wilhelm R. v Pichs; Süd-Tirol emplacements and their cancels (9pp).
Issue 95: AGM report; exhibition-prizewinnings; numerous queries and one answer; changes to FIP rules on Postal History; "The end of Feldpost" (in 1918); illustrated Christmas Cards by Ernst Kutzer; WWI anti-espionage arrangements; Tokoe & Troitzky camps; packets to USA in 1914; Fieldpost-attachment details; book reviews.
Issue 96: Festweeks; forthcoming displays; Q&A; Marine Fieldpost from Gomiunik; officially-opened labels from Gen. Gouv. Warschau; WWI packet cards to Denmark; etc.
Issue 97: Sr Majestät K.U. Leibgarde; Qs&As; Alpine Detachments; Fluchtige Feldbahn; 'Unter Kriegsrecht geöffnet' in 1918; military hospitals etc in Montenegro (4pp); the Vienna-Krakau-Lemberg-Kiew line and the Olmütz connection; the Electric Fence detachments; Jindrich alias Heinrich Kostrba; etc
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