PRESIDENT'S CUP 2006 We held our annual President's Cup Competition at our Peterborough weekend away meeting on Saturday and Michael Dobbs was the winner. Peter O'Keeffe, FPHS President, presenting Michael Dobbs with the President's Cup 2006 Ben Ferguson - Royal Engineers (Postal Service) 1945-47 The late Ben Ferguson was our Editor and live auction manager for many years. After leaving school he had one job but soon moved to the General Post Office where he was called up for National Service at the end of World War II. After training, he was posted to the RE(PS) and served in Algiers, Italy, Trieste and then Germany. This entry reflects mail he sent and received during this period together with ephemera connected with his time in the Army. Equal second was Andrew Brooks with "Remembering 1914-18" using traditional and modern methods of postal history, etc to identify those who died in the Great War and Colin Hepper with "WW2 German POW Camps" through postcards and letter sheets to and from German POW Camps. The other entrants were Peter High with "Repatriation Ships", covers and postcards sent from a number of ships engaged in the repatriation of sick, wounded, diplomats or displaced persons during or following WW1 and WW2; Alistair Kennedy with "The Somme 1916", nine sheets can only provide a few aspects of British mail relating to this important campaign (1st July to November 1916). Included were a postcard from a "Bradford Pal" and covers from French artillery serving under British command and British artillery serving under French command; Peter O'Keeffe with "The 'White' Greenies" (or "It will be alwhite on the night" !), a selection of some of the "white" greenies used mainly in the Middle / Far East areas during WW2 and Keith Tranmer with "Turkish Field Post Offices at Gallipoli 1914-16", Fieldpost of the Turkish Army on the Gallipoli Peninsula; the datestamps were a mixture of the seal type (negative seal) with number and year only and the modern datestamp with number, date and Arabic inscription for fieldpost. Such mail is very rare and most of those illustrated came from officers, who paid a postage rate, the other ranks were post free but so many of them were illiterate material is difficult to come by.