Description:
INWARDS MAIL: 1916 Russian Prisoners of War Postal Card from Siberia with the message headed "Nikolsk-Ussuriysk den 21 Juli 16", to "der Hilfsverein für Deutsch-Osterr-Ungarische Kriegsgefangene", sent via Austria where triangular censor cachet applied in magenta, a bit aged. [Nikolsk-Ussuriysk (now Ussriysk) is about 50km N or Vladivostok. One website states there was a POW Camp here only between 1919 & 1921. This card proves the camp was operating 3 years earlier]
Symbol : ps
Grade : b
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