1916, wartime cover sent On Active Service, franked with 10 kopek
dark blue Arms issue, tied by unclear lilac circular datestamp,
addressed
1916, wartime cover sent On Active Service, franked with 10 kopek
dark blue Arms issue, tied by unclear lilac circular datestamp,
addressed to Lieutenant J. W. Ferguson, 1/5th K.O.S.B, 155th
Brigade, 52nd Division, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, boxed
red military handstamp, reverse shows PETROGRAD 26 3 16 cancel and
PETROGRAD 4 4 16 cds, censor label (Petrograd Military Censorship),
boxed censor cachets in violet control number 139, worn but
complete and intact with clear markings, scarce censored military
mail from Russia to unusual destination of the British
Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces, historically significant
correspondence from PETROGRAD during the final year of Imperial
Russia under Tsar Nicholas II, posted during World War I amid
intensifying Eastern Front pressures and shortly before the Russian
Revolution of 1917, addressed to a British officer of the King's
Own Scottish Borderers engaged in the Gallipoli aftermath or Sinai
and Palestine campaign, the 52nd (Lowland) Division having been
transferred from Gallipoli to Egypt in January 1916, such mail
illustrates the multinational coordination and logistical
complexity of the Entente forces, notable historical-geographical
provenance linked to the shifting theatres of war, Lieutenant J. W.
Ferguson likely among the officers supporting post-Gallipoli
reorganization, this cover reflects both military and postal
history intersections, ex Kugel, VF! Estimate 900€.
