Lot 20274 – 1905 Card sent by Cossack of 2nd SOTNIA 11th ORENB

1905 Card sent by Cossack of 2nd SOTNIA 11th ORENBURG COSSACK REGIMENT to Empress Feodorovna at St Petersburg giving thanks for gift, cancelled HARBIN HOSPITAL SUBURB ‘a’ 25 5 05. Red free-frank cachet of 4th HARBIN COVERED HOSPITAL. This Cossack unit took part in the defence of Mukden (March 1905), in which Russian losses were more than 40,000 killed and nearly 50,000 wounded. This wounded soldier says that he was evacuated by Empress Maria’s Military Medical Train from Station Kungchuling, to which Russian GHQ moved after the fall of Mukden. Additional viewcard included depicting transfer of wounded to a Harbin hospital.