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:n.  1914 - 18      Russian occupation of northern Persia                         Russian Field Post
     Fights between Turkis                                                             Mobile Medical
     3.and Russian troops                                                              Units
                             Menjil. Postal &  Telegraph division cancel no 243 "b"
      Russian Military Hospital was  based at Enzeli. Medical units attached to army units. One was in Menjil 100 km south of
             Enzeli.  The Red Cross cachet on the front reads  "All Russian Zemskoi Union. Eastern Persian team".







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                     Sent 8  April 1917 (Julian) fromMenjil via Enzeli andBaku to Moscowarriving 16 April



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             On the back: "Support the sick &  wounded soldiers. District administration of the 25th medical and food
                                  supplies at Enzeli" (Persian port at the Caspian Sea)
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