British post offices abroad

Great Britain 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:

* British Post Abroad
** 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
** 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

Sources

* Stanley Gibbons Ltd: various catalogues
* [http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/home.html Encyclopaedia of Postal History]
* Stuart Rossiter & John Flower: "The Stamp Atlas"