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100 - Militaria: Correspondence/Health/WWI World War I 1914–1918 - Rare S.P. 14 Medical Train Postcard - Chief Medical Officer’s Stamp, September 1915 - This postcard provides direct insight into the logistics of evacuating the wounded by rail during the Great War.Written on board on September 2, 1915, by a member of the moving convoy, it bears the handwritten notation “Medical Train” and a field note describing the weather conditions: “On our way north... It’s starting to get cold, and it’s been raining for two days.” The card is addressed to an engineer based in Niort in the Deux-Sèvres department (79). The centerpiece of this document is its superb original oval purple stamp from the medical service: “MEDICAL TRAIN S.P. 14 STATE _ CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER.” The postcard also features a beautiful original black circular postmark from the Gare de la Somme (80) dated September 15, 1915.
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Militaria: Correspondence/Health/WWI World War I 1914–1918 - Rare S.P. 14 Medical Train Postcard - Chief Medical Officer’s Stamp, September 1915 - This postcard provides direct insight into the logistics of evacuating the wounded by rail during the Great War.Written on board on September 2, 1915, by a member of the moving convoy, it bears the handwritten notation “Medical Train” and a field note describing the weather conditions: “On our way north... It’s starting to get cold, and it’s been raining for two days.” The card is addressed to an engineer based in Niort in the Deux-Sèvres department (79). The centerpiece of this document is its superb original oval purple stamp from the medical service: “MEDICAL TRAIN S.P. 14 STATE _ CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER.” The postcard also features a beautiful original black circular postmark from the Gare de la Somme (80) dated September 15, 1915.
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