Lot 20386 – 1907 Illustrated letter-sheet issued to battalions

1907 Illustrated letter-sheet issued to battalions guarding the Russian-owned CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY, showing arrival of recruit and his stages of training. Under the terms of the Peace Treaty (September 1905) these were the only military units permitted to remain in Manchuria. They were nicknamed “Mathilda’s Guards” after the wife of the Russian Minister of Finance who had masterminded the C.E.R.