Lot 20285 – 1905 Pictorial envelope with Field Hospital motif

1905 Pictorial envelope with Field Hospital motif produced in Kiev, sent as stampless soldiers’ mail to St Petersburg. Abbreviated endorsement translates: FROM THE ACTIVE ARMY. 120th INFANTRY (SEPUKHOV) REGIMENT. Cancelled GENERAL HEADQUARTERS FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 19 6 05. After the fall of Mukden, March 1905, the Russian G.H.Q. was transferred to KUOKIATIEN, a small station of the Chinese Eastern Railway south of Harbin in a section of the railway ceded to Japan after 1905.