ORLEANS (45) - CROIX ROUGE FRANCAISE - SOCIETE de SECOURS au - Lot 9

ORLEANS (45) - CROIX ROUGE FRANCAISE - SOCIETE de SECOURS aux BLESSES MILITAIRES des armées de terre et de mer - Two good unique documents: - Franchise mail postcard from the ORLEANS COMMITTEE, specially illustrated by Joseph Beuzon. Voyaged, dated October 25, 1914, a cared-for soldier gives news to his parents. On the back, also with header illustrated with the statue of Joan of Arc, BORDE CACHET de L'HOPITAL AUXILIAIRE du TERRITOIRE n° 4 ( * ). - correspondence card souvenir personal manufacture of a nurse. On the right is a small photo, original bromide 41 x 55 mm, of the interior of the chapel of auxiliary hospital no. 4, and a very pretty text illuminated in red and gold, perfectly calligraphed: "this humble altar which received so many prayers...or inspired so much devotion...will remain forever for the nurses of hospital no. 4 the beloved center of moving and imperishable memories". Orléans August 17, 1914 - July 7, 1917. ( * ) H.A. n° 4 d' Orléans : located in the Ecole Normale d' Instituteurs at 72 Fg Bourgogne, 101 beds.