HARRY COPE MEMORIAL AWARD FOR LITERATURE WINNERS 2007 Bob Swarbrick The Royal Marines Home and Abroad - A Postal History 1664-1994 2006 John Slingsby The Postal History of the Army of the Black Sea 1918-23 2005 No award made 2004 David Tett A Postal History of the Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees in East Asia During World War Two The three volumes cover: Volume 1 - Singapore & Malaya 1942-1945 (The Changi Connection) Volume 2 - Dutch East Indies 1942-1946 (Paradise Lost) Volume 3 - Burma, Thailand & Indochina 1942-1946 (The Railway, The River & The Bridge) 2003 Keith Tranmer Przemysl 1914-1915 2002 Erik Lørdahl of Norway German Concentration Camps 1933-1945 - History and Inmate Mail • [Volume I - History] • [Volume II - Prisoners Mail (Part 1 - Introduction & Camps A-K) (Part 2 - Camps L-Z)] 2001 Graham Mark, FRPSL British Censorship of Civil Mails during World War I, 1914-1919 2000 No Award made 1999 Dr Michael H. Gould British Naval Post & Censor Marks of the First World War 1998 Jim Boyden, USA AEF in the BEF Military Postal History WW1 1997 Alan J. Brown Awarded posthumously in recognition of all his work for the Society and his 30 years as Editor (1961-1991) of the F.P.H.S Newsletter (issues 51 to 209) 1996 Robin M. Startup, FRPSL, FRPSNZ of New Zealand History of the New Zealand Military Postal Services 1845-1991 (co-authored with Edward Proud - see 1995 below) • Wartime Postal Markings in the Pacific • Territorial Camps in New Zealand 1995 Edward (Ted) B. Proud For his series of publications on British Commonwealth Forces mail, some 13 in number: • History of British Army Postal Service [Volume I (1882-1902), Volume II (1903-27), Volume III (1928-63)] • History of the Australian Military Postal Services 1914-50 • The Canadian Military Posts [Volume 1, Volume 2 (1920-47), Volume 3 (1947-89)] • History of East African Army Postal Service • History of the Indian Army Postal Service [Volume I (1854-1913), Volume II (1914-30), Volume III (1931-47)] • History of the New Zealand Military Postal Services 1845-1991 (co-authored with Robin Startup - see 1996 above) • History of the South African Army Postal Service 1994 No Award made 1993 John Firebrace British Empire Campaigns & Occupations in the Near East 1914-1924 - A Postal History 1992 Frederick Patka of Austria for his postal history of the Austrian Navy: • K(u)K Marinepost 1798-1914 RULES 1. The Award consists of a medal which the recipient will keep. It is named after a former Hon. Secretary of the Forces Postal History Society, who was a benefactor of the Society. 2. The Award shall be determined by the Officers and Committee Members of the Society meeting in Committee to decide upon the Award and shall be notified at the Annual General Meeting. 3. To be considered for this Award the author(s) must be member(s) of the FPHS. 4. The medal need not be awarded each year, and more than one award may be made in any one year, at the discretion of the Officers and Committee meeting as at Rule 2 above. 5. Nominations for the Award may be made by any member in writing to the Hon. Secretary of the FPHS, by the date to be announced in the Society's Newsletter Supplement. The work in question must be available at the meeting of the Committee, and will be returned to the person submitting it. 6. To qualify for consideration a work should include original research (preferably on subjects which have received little or no attention in the past) and the content be such as to fall within the scope of Forces Postal History. 7. The material submitted can be an essay in depth or article of not less than 4,000 words, or a book. It can be published privately or commercially or through the FPHS. 8. The work should be a new work written or published within the three years preceding the year of the award. 9. There must be a good postal history content, rather than an overtone of history which obscures postal information. As a guide, the Committee should consider the value of the information provided, which not only indicates what to look for but also provides a stimulus to encourage a collector to take up the subject. 10. It is hoped that this award will encourage contributions from all the members of the FPHS, particularly for the Newsletter or Society publications, although it is not an obligation to publish through the FPHS. 11. The decision of the Committee shall be final.