TOURS - MONTS (37) - FIRST WORLD WAR. - Lot 145

TOURS - MONTS (37) - FIRST WORLD WAR. eight photo postcards, surely unique, sent in MILITARY FRANCHISE by SOLDIER-INFIRM Louis CHEVALIER stationed AT THE POUDRERIE NATIONALE DU RIPAULT. The cards, bromides and photos, with their correspondence about service at Le Ripault, but also about life on the farm, livestock mortality, the price of wood for sale... bear the Poudrerie regimental stamp: - 2 cards: his full-length portrait and soldier Clément Amirault posing in bed. - 4 cards: Ripault sanitary service groups, "the band and its leaders", "nurses and majors". - review of July 14, 1917 - nice general shot in front of the gate of the poudrerie, decorated with French, American and Allied flags: "the commander at arms watching the parade of the guard detachment". - review of July 14, 1917 - beautiful, lively general shot of the square in front of the powder factory gates: "the commander in arms reviewing the guard detachment in square formation".