General characteristics:
| Heading and notes: | Form number T.G. 42A. Heading is URGENT TELEGRAM in sans serif font of 2 sizes. |
| Message area: | Blank. |
| Reverse side: | DU-10A has URGENT TELEGRAM in pink band. DU-10B has a pink band but no inscription. DU-10C has neither band nor inscription. |
| Colours (text & form): | Blue or light black on Cream paper. |
| Size of form overall: | See below. |
Distinctive characteristics of the form:
- printed on cream paper with a coloured band across the top section;
- reverse side would normally have a coloured band across words URGENT TELEGRAM - but not in the error shown in type 10B;
- the main distinctions between the varieties are:
10A: pink band;
10B: pink band but no letters on reverse side;
10C: orange band.
Cooktown, Qld to Hindmarsh, S.A.12 May 1944.
AW-DU-10A.
Printed in October 1941 - the same printing number as the previous form (AW-DU-9B).
Characteristics:
- printed on cream paper with pink band over text;
- URGENT TELEGRAM reverse printed on back in a pink band;
- size 103 × 190 mm.
- formatting the same as for AW-DU-9B.
This form was an emergency war-time printing because of the difficulty in obtaining pink paper.
Non-disclosed sending location because of the War and sent to Townsville, Qld.11 August 1944.
St. Kilda Rail, Vic to Yerong, Qld.26 September, 1944.
Details of use and rarity.
| Form sub-number |
Schedule number | Earliest recorded date | Rarity rating |
| DU-10A | Sch. C. 3458 - 10/1941. | 15 January 1943 at Liverpool NSW. | RRR |
| DU-10B | No Schedule number. | 11 August 144 at T.O. Townsville, Qld | RRRR |
| DU-10C | 42/68141 | 26 September 1944 at Yerong, Qld. | RR |