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| Lot #5098 BELGIUM Military Mail 1915-17 "Corps Expeditionnaire Belge en Russie" (Belgian Expeditionary Corps of Armored Cars), collection of 65+ covers or cards on pages and loose, showing variety of markings in Cyrillic and in French, incoming mail, destinations, unit cachets, some detailed information, also copies of the actual vehicles, troops in transit, research articles and variety of other collateral material, mixed condition, interesting group, excellent exhibition potential (following an agreement between King Albert and Tsar Nicholas, the entire Armored Corps of about 400 vehicles was transferred to the Russian Front, where it saw action against German and Austrian forces. In early 1917, the ACM got caught up in the Russian Revolution. Unable to cross German territory to return to Belgium, the men traveled home via Ukraine and Siberia on a trans-Siberian train, arriving in Vladivostok on 20 April 1918. Five days later they boarded U.S. Army Transport ship "Sheridan", arriving in San Francisco on 12 May 1918 where they were greeted as heroes)  | $6,250.00 Bidding Closed | |
 | Lot #5099 BELGIUM Military Mail 1919 (14 July) folded mourning announcement (Freiherrn Ferdinand von Wolff-Metternich) sent from Xanten during Belgian Occupation, with 5pf franking, violet "Cantonement de Xanten Armee Belge d'Occupation" unit cachet, fine and extremely rare | $150.00 Bidding Closed |
