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Prime Minster Lord Callaghan of Cardiff MP signed 75th Anniv Royal British Legion cover. 1 Jul 76 - l. O. M. 75th Anniversary of the Royal British Legion black Flown cachet Flown in Lancaster from RAF Coningsby. (27 March 1912 - 26 March 2005), was a British Labour politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Callaghan is to date the only politician in history to have served in all four of the ”Great Offices of State”, having been Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967, Home Secretary from 1967 to 1970, and Foreign Secretary from 1974 until his appointment as Prime Minister in 1976. Callaghan joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve as an Ordinary Seaman in World War II from 1942 where he served in the East Indies Fleet and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in April 1944. [3] While training for his promotion, his medical examination revealed that he was suffering from tuberculosis and was admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar in Gosport near Portsmouth. After he recovered, he was discharged and assigned to duties with the Admiralty in Whitehall. He was assigned to the Japanese section and wrote a service manual for the Royal Navy The Enemy Japan. During 1945 he was assigned to the Indian Fleet and served on HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Indian Ocean. After VE Day, along with other. Prospective candidates he returned to the United Kingdom to stand in the general election. Certified Copy No003 of 200.