A new postal history item discovered
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Regarding the postal history of this military event, he notes:
Postal History: The Story So Far
Until now, the ‘Pope Correspondence’ of five covers were thought to be the only ones to survive from the Vitakri Field Force. They were all sent by Surgeon Thomas Henry Pope (1853–1920) doing duty with the 21st Madras Native Infantry to Miss Agnes Ann Crichton (1958–1923), his fiancée and later his wife, in Edinburgh.
The Horst Dietrich Grand Prix collection of Afghanistan – one of the greatest ever assembled – was sold by David Feldman of Geneva on 19 November 2003. Lot 10078 (Figure 4) contained all five covers…
This article introduces a newly discovered cover.