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Lot 4538
1917 Picture postcard of Cairo sent as "Souvenir de la ...more
1917 Picture postcard of Cairo sent as "Souvenir de la Mission
Militaire Francaise du Hedjaz 1916-1917" message, with blue "Base
Militaire Francaise De Suez" cachet, sent during the period when
the Expeditionary Corps was forming in Egypt
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Lot 4540
1918 (18 Apr) Tresor et Postes 601, cover to France, with ...more
1918 (18 Apr) Tresor et Postes 601, cover to France, with violet
authorized cachet "Mission B.- Detachement de Yambo/Le Chef de
Detachement" , franked with five different Hejaz stamps, tied by
bilingual Ottoman "Yambo" pmks, showing return address of Sgt.
Rachid "Mission du Hedjaz par S.P. 601 Jerusalem", with Villemonble
(11.6.18) arrival pmk
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Lot 4541
1918 (14 Feb) Tresor et Postes 601, cover sent from Hejaz to ...more
1918 (14 Feb) Tresor et Postes 601, cover sent from Hejaz to Port
Said, with military departure cds and violet authorized cachet
"Mission Militaire Francaise Au Hedjaz / Le Chef de Detachement",
large "F" (French) handstamp, with British Army Post Office transit
and Port Said (16.II.18) arrival pmks on back, filing fold, fine
and rare usage
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Lot 4543
1918 (27 Feb) Tresor et Postes 601, picture postcard from a ...more
1918 (27 Feb) Tresor et Postes 601, picture postcard from a medical
officer in Hejaz, with military departure cds and red authorized
cachet "Le Medicin Major Mission Francaise Au Hedjaz", fine
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Lot 4544
1918 (June) cover from Mecca to Paris, franked with 1pi blue, tied
by ...more 1918 (June) cover from Mecca to Paris, franked with 1pi blue, tied by all-Arabic departure pmk, violet "M.M.F.Hedjaz" (French Military Mission) Fieldpost handstamp, "Djedda" and Port Said transit pmks, arriving Rosny sous Bois (21.7.18), filing fold away from the stamp, fine and highly unusual usage through the civil post office in Mecca
by ...more 1918 (June) cover from Mecca to Paris, franked with 1pi blue, tied by all-Arabic departure pmk, violet "M.M.F.Hedjaz" (French Military Mission) Fieldpost handstamp, "Djedda" and Port Said transit pmks, arriving Rosny sous Bois (21.7.18), filing fold away from the stamp, fine and highly unusual usage through the civil post office in Mecca
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Lot 4539
1917 (6 June) Tresor et Postes 601, cover sent from Hejaz to ...more
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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Lot 4542
1918 (25 Sep) Tresor et Postes 601, cover endorsed "F.M.", sent
from ...more 1918 (25 Sep) Tresor et Postes 601, cover endorsed "F.M.", sent from Hejaz to Lyon, with military departure cds and violet authorized cachet "Mission Militaire Francaise Au Hedjaz / Le Chef de Mission", with emblematic "France" in center, return address "Mission Mil.au Hedjaz par Secteur 601 Armee L'Orient", very rare
from ...more 1918 (25 Sep) Tresor et Postes 601, cover endorsed "F.M.", sent from Hejaz to Lyon, with military departure cds and violet authorized cachet "Mission Militaire Francaise Au Hedjaz / Le Chef de Mission", with emblematic "France" in center, return address "Mission Mil.au Hedjaz par Secteur 601 Armee L'Orient", very rare
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Lot 4545
1918 (Apr) Tresor et Postes 601, cover endorsed "F.M. CSRG ...more
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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