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Auction: 8029 - Soldiers' Rates of the BE - Gerald Sattin Collection
Lot: 75

Sudan The First Suakin Expedition 1885 (8 Apr.) India 9p. Soldiers´ and Seaman´s envelope from "F.H. Mawson Lce. Corporal No. 3 Compy Commst & Tpt. Corps" to England, countersigned by the Commanding Officer and cancelled with a fine strike of the "british army post office/egypt" code "C" c.d.s., Huddersfield arrival c.d.s. (21.4) on reverse; light creases and small faults at top and on flap, otherwise clean and attractive. Photo Estimate £ 500-600 Note: When the Indian Government was instructed to send a contingent, it was also requested to provide an additional Company of the Commissariat & Transport Corps to do duty with the British force

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