Australia - War and the recovery: 1940-1957.
Urgent rate transmission form: AW-TU-11.

 
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form number T.G. 41A.
URGENT TELEGRAM in two lines in central box.
Message area: 25 boxes in 5 lines.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Black on salmon-pink.
Size of form overall: 104 × 190 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 
AW_TU_11A
Printed August 1950.
AW-TU-11A.

Unused transmission form.

Characteristics:

  • printed in black;
  • lower left corner is blank.
11A used AW-TU-11A.

Used at Melbourne
26 June 1953.

Same form number as previously but a used example informing a family that their son, who was a digger, had been wounded in action.

TU-11B AW-TU-11B.

Unused transmission form.

Characteristics:

  • printed in blue;
  • lower left corner has a box about "sender's signature...".

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number
Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
TU-11A Sch. C. 6361-8/50.   NC
TU-11B Sch. C. 6621- 19/51.   NC