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SAUDI ARABIA - French Military Mission 1917 (6 June) Tresor et Postes ...more
SAUDI ARABIA - French Military Mission 1917 (6 June) Tresor et Postes 601, cover sent from Hejaz to the French Army Base in Port Said, with military departure cds and violet authorized cachet "Mission Militaire Francaise Au Hedjaz / Le Chef de Mission", fine and rare cover, only a few recorded from this military campaign (Although the contribution of the French in Arabia during WWI is not as well known as that of the British, they played an important part in the war on the Hejaz Railway. Established in 1916 under the command of Col. Bremond, the French Military Mission (40 officers and 1,000 Muslim troops from North Africa) operated in all sectors of the Hejaz Railway. French units were attached to the southern armies of Princes Ali and Abdullah in the Hejaz, as well as to the northern army under Prince Faisal. The artillery battery of Captain Rosario Pisani provided vital support for the Bedouin in their attacks against the well entrenched and heavily armed Ottoman defenders. Pisani's units took part in several raids with T.E. Lawrence and made up part of the great offensive push to capture Damascus at the end of the war)
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SAUDI ARABIA - French Military Mission 1918 (Apr) Tresor et Postes ...more
SAUDI ARABIA - French Military Mission 1918 (Apr) Tresor et Postes 601, cover endorsed "F.M. CSRG Mission Militaire de Hedjaz Yambo SP 601", sent to Gironde, with blue authorized cachet "Mission Militaire Au Hedjaz / Parc D'Artillerie" and "Ambulance / Le Medicine-Chef" in black, fine and previously unrecorded Artillery Instruction cachet used by a small French detachment sent to Yambo (at the time, a minor port on the Red Sea)
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Lot 1216
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Cherrystone Auction
Lot 1217
900.00 USD
(app. 783 EUR)
Sold
(app. 783 EUR)
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