WW1 Nursing - Medical Cover 1915 Hospital de l'Alliance YVETOT Postage Due
WW1 cover from France with 10c cancelled YVETOT 28-4-15 and addressed home to London and a Mrs Shack Sommer.
Top left addressed from:
Nurse F S Sommer
Hospital de l'Alliance
YVETOT Seine Infre
Postage was underpaid (Foreign rate would have been 30c), French T (taxed) cachet. Charged at a single decency on arrival in England with the 3d F.B.A cachet implying the fee due, collected LONDON 1 MY 15.
(Nurse Sommer sister of George Schack-Sommer, died in action Galicia June 1915 serving as a 2Lt with the Artirsky Hussars Russian Army. (He had petitioned the Tsar for permission to join the Russian Army – Was awarded St Georges cross).
Condition as show: Old, light fold and creasing
ID: GB WW1 42134