Stamp of Malta (British crown colony); 1956; definitive stamp of the issue "Local Motives - Queen Elizabeth II"; stamp drawing with the "War Memorial" in Valletta and a portrait of the Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in oval; stamp postmarked on Stamp: Michel: No. 240; Yvert et Tellier: No. 242; Scott: No. 249; AFA: No. 239 Color: blueish greean to green Watermark: Malta No. 4 (= Great Britain No. 4) (multiple Saint Edward's crown over convoluted charcters "CA") Nominal value: 1½ d. (Penny) Postage validity: from 9 February 1956 until ?
The memorial, designed by the British architect Hubert Worthington (1886-1963), was inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on .
Quotation: "...The Malta Memorial commemorates almost 2,300 airmen who lost their lives during the Second World War whilst serving with the Commonwealth Air Forces flying from bases in Austria, Italy, Sicily, islands of the Adriatic and Mediterranean, Malta, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, West Africa, Yugoslavia and Gibraltar, and who have no known grave."
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