- £375.00
Ukraine. (Belgian Armoured Automotive Machine Gun Corps). 1916. Envelope addressed to Switzerland bearing Russia Yvert 67, 10k blue tied by double ring Field Post Office No 213 (Ukraine) dated '17th Feb 1916', endorsed 'Division Belge d' Auto Canons/ Division de Front par/ Legation Belge/Petrograde' with double ring 'Belgian Armoured Automotive Machine Gun Corps' violet cachet in Russian on reverse with censor tape tied by framed boxed censor No 702 and boxed '8' censor hand-stamp on face, signed by the Warrant Officer' with arrival in Tevitit on reverse.
The Belgians sent a volunteer Armoured Car Corps to Russia. The Corps arrived in Archangel in October 1915 and gave military assistance to Russia at Petrograd, Peterhof and Kiev and at Field Post Office 8 and FPO 213 in Ukraine January, February 1916.
See Foreign Military Activity in the Russian Civil War 1917 - 1923 by Edward Klempka 'Appendix B, page 360.
