 British Forces Datestamps with this inscription were used from May 1st 1941 to as late as 1945 by the military forces of Britain and the Dominions, with numbers that were randomly assigned and did not correspond to any identifying number of a military unit. These date-stamps were adopted in an agreement with the Egyptian Government, according to which troops could use the stamps of their own countries and the respective forces would assume task of handling the military mails. There were four sub-types of handstamp major types of machine cancellation, one having wavy lines, the other having a slogan IT PAYS T'O LEND, with cog-wheels. The numbers were sometimes moved unit to another, although the post offices were essentially stationary. 
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