Conflans / France: Bridges Destruction Landwehr Baukompagnie Military Feldpost WWI (Vintage RPPC 1914)

vvintage real photo postcard rppc capturing a significant military engineering scene in conflans france during the early months of world war one

the front shows a large group of german soldiers posing in front of a stone arch bridge damaged or blown up by french forces with temporary wooden supports and a small boat in the foreground

the front features a faint handwritten pencil note at the top

the reverse side is formatted as a german field post card feld postkarte with a clear violet circular unit stamp reading k b landwehr eisenbahn baukompagnie nr 3 a handwritten message in german fluid ink is dated conflans d 2 9 14 describing the reconstruction of a railway bridge blown up by the french army addressed to l schumann in hemringen

matte gelatin silver print

size: ~ 9 x 14 cm (1 cm ~ 0.39 inch)

condition: very good...please also refer to scans which show complete front and back of postcard

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