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III. 1914 - 18 Russian occupation of northern Persia Russian Field Post
Battles between Turkish Tabriz Consular
and Russian troops mail
Combination of field post and Tabriz consular post office
Russian Field Post 119 located in Urmia, Azarbadjan. Money Transfer Card via Tabriz Consular PO
The only recorded Russian Field Post money transfer originating from Persia
The only recorded combination of Russian field post and the Russian Consular mail at Tabr'iz

Cancellation
reads
TABRIZ
ROSSIISKOE
KO NS UL ,/
A money
transfer '
from a
Reserve Field
PO 119 at
· unnia, the
Russian front
in ersia on
10 Nov 1917
(Julian) to
Tabriz.
Received by
The Consular
post office
next day
Polevaja
zap as
pocht kont.
N 119 .

./'

Tabriz. Commercial mail. 4 kopek foreign rate for cards

T he obliterator
reads Tavriz
1 Ro§s Konsulstvo
nOYTOBA~ KAPTO Sent 11
November 1916
(Julian), via
Russia recieving
censors of Baku
and
St Petrograd,
transit 20 Nov -
(Jul ian) on
reverse
Addressed to
Geneva
Rate 4 kopek
to abroad

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