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Auction: 13027 - The Collector's series sale
Lot: 363

Cameroons
French Campaign 1914 - 1918
Military Mail
1916 (6 Apr.) unstamped "touring club de france" patriotic postcard from Duala to Finistere, showing fine circular "tresor et poste/aux/armées" handstamp in black and arrival datestamp on reverse; the message reads "Cameroun is ours..We are returning to Brazzaville to train a contingent of black troops for the front.." (transl.). Most attractive

Note: The card was written by Lt. Colonel Hutin who led the Sanga Column of the French Force which captured Nola on 8th October 1914.

literature:
This postcard is illustrated in "The French Navy and AEF Columns" Vol. II by Dudley Cobb, page 78, and discussed on page 46.

Sold for
£80