£550
Asturias. 1914-18 Picture postcards of the ship (21), a cover and letter, comprising 1917 stampless cover to No. 20 Ambulance Train, B.E.F with red boxed "HOSPITAL SHIP "ASTURIAS" / PASSED BY CENSOR", 1915 card cancelled in London with violet "ASTURIAS" and oval "POSTED ON THE / HIGH SEAS", seven other cards written by wounded soldiers, three of these stampless cards posted at Southampton with red "ARMY / LETTER / FREE" or ½d charge marks (2, one with a ½d due stamp), two stampless cards with red triangular "WOUNDED / SOLDIER / IN HOSPITAL" applied in Salisbury or violet circular "2nd WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL / MANCHESTER / POSTED / BY A / WOUNDED / SOLDIER". Also three postcards showing the ship beached off the South Devon coast after being torpedoed on 21st March 1917, and a letter of 25th March written by a crew member describing the torpedoing. An interesting lot. (23).
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