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lot # 562 - brit. colonies palestine
Austrian Forces: Syria, Lebanon & Palestine Campaign 1916/18: Cards/covers (5) with Oct 1916 card with fine bilingual "FELDPOST / MIL.MISS / A.O.K.4" and two line "K. u. K. Sanitäatsanstelten für Syrien" and "Reservespital in Jerusalem" cachets in violet; 7 Jan 1917 card (two days prior to Battle of Rafa) with fine bilingual "FELDPOST / MIL.MISS / A.O.K.4" cds with violet cachet of the Austrian "Gebirgsartillerie Regiment No. 6 / Howitzer Battery No. 2"; Aug 1918 card with bilingual "K. u. K. ETAPPE BEIRUT" in violet and "FPO / No. 452" cds; 1918 card with same FPO cds and "K. u. K. öst. ung. Mob. Res. Spital in Damaskus" cachet in violet; together with a 1916 card from Prague to an Austrian soldier in Ras-El-Tin POW Camp in Egypt. Scarce group. Ex collection Keith Tranmer.
Catalogue 284: Europe & Overseas
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