Middle East Forces

Stamps overprinted M.E.F. were created for use in northern Africa as British forces captured territory beginning in 1942 in Eritrea and Italian Somaliland]. Then later in [[Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and even in some of the Dodecanese Islands (from 1945)

 File:MEF 1d.jpg|1943 1d value. Sirte cancel in violet is a fiscal/revenue cancel. 
 * In 1942, then-current British George VI definitives were overprinted M.E.F.. There are two types of overprint: 14mm wide and rectangular stops/periods, 13½mm wide and square stops/periods.
 * In 1943-47, George V definitives in new (paler) colors were overprinted similarly.

Postage due
 File:MEF due halfpence.jpg|1942 ½d value 
 * In 1942, British postage dues were overprinted M.E.F..