THE BUZZ COUSINS COLLECTION
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ALL ABOUT THE BUZZ COUSINS COLLECTION
In late 1941, a keen young stamp collector, 18-year-old RAF Corporal Buzz Cousins was posted to Changi in Singapore. He, and hundreds of other service men boarded the liner Rino Del Pacifico in convoy to Freetown. U Boats chased them along the South American rout to Capetown. They went by rail to Pretoria-Durban and a lucky 28 airmen detrained to Potchefstroom. The rest went on to Changi, which fell to the Japanese in February 1942. In South Africa, Buzz became Corporal I/C Instrument section of 3 Squadrons of Tiger Moth Aircraft.
As an outgoing and popular young man, Buzz organized many young women in government and business offices to collect stamps for him. He started to build a big collection. In 1944, he was posted back to Bomber Command in the UK. In 1946 he was posted as the first Senior NCO to the Kings Flight and in 1947 accompanied the King George VI and family, also a very keen collectors, on the Royal Tour of South Africa. Again, he found time to pursue his passion for collecting South African stamps. Awarded the Royal Victorian Medal for service to the Royal family by King George VI in 1952, Buzz departed the RAF to join Smiths Aviation as a service engineer.
His territory was Africa for three years, 1955 to 1957, he reestablished his network of office workers who provided a great supply of stamps. He continued to build and develop his collection for the next 70 years. It is one of the great passions of his life
IN DEPTH STAMP KNOWLEDGE
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Buzz's Method is to closely examine a specific issue of stamps and identify details such as colours, cylinders and watermarks and frame varieties and flaws, with special attention to catalogued and uncatalogued varieties.
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Please advise me if you feel that this content is interesting and worth having in a web site. I will add content from his collection if base on the level of interest from you. I am starting with South African stamps, but I intend to also add his Chinese Collection.