UNFICYP - United Nations Force in Cyprus, SWEDBAT, the Swedish Batallion

Militärbrief M11C entwerted 1972-12-17 in Zypern mit Stempel C1 gesendet aus SWEDCIVPOL
Lettre militaire M11C d'un policier civile oblitéré 17/12/72 par le bureau postal militaire suédois au Chypre

The quantitatively largest contribution from Sweden in the United Nations Peace keeping missions has been  the Swedish Batallion SWEDBAT  in Cyprus. From March 1964 until October 1993 a total of 25 505 military personnel and about 2 340 civil policemen in SWEDCIVPOL har been in service for the peace. According to the UN Resolution 186 (1964) on the deployment of UNFICYP the three operative functions was:

1) "to use its best efforts to prevent a recurrence of fighting";
2) "as necessary, to contribute to the maintenance and restoration of law and order" and
3) "a return to normal conditions"

Military letter M11C from batallion 53 C sent 1974-07-17 to the UN deparatment of the Regiment I 4 in Linkoping.
The cancel C1 type 1 was used.

During the period 1964 to 1987 Sweden had its own Field Post Office in Cyprus. After 1987 only a small contingent of civil policemen were left on
Cyprus. They used other field post offices like e.g. the Austrian. Seven main types of circular hand stamps were used between 1964 and 1987.

The following are examples of the type C2 hand cancel.

An official envelope SWED BN UNFICYP sent to the Army Staff UN-Dept. Stockholm 1967-06-07

The hand cancel C2 was used