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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 968

Sudan
Covers and Cancellations
World War I
1917 (6 Dec.) 5m. red stationery envelope endorsed "turkana patrol/mongalla" from Major Betterton to his wife in Cairo, cancelled by Mongalla datestamp (Type 19-8) and with violet triangular censor cachet number 7 alongside, Khartoum and Cairo datestamps on reverse. Scarce. Photo

Note: Major Betterton commanded mounted infantry during the Turkana Patrol. on 27 may 1018 the Equatorials located the Turkana guarding cattle near the Lorusia Mountains. Unfortunately they turned out to be well-armed , well dug-in Abyssinian regulars. The Equatorials pressed forward inflicting heavy losses on the Abyssinians forcing them to withdraw into the hills

provenance:
Norton Collier, Sale 2, September 2005

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Sold for
£190

Starting price
£140