- £350.00
Serbia. (British Military Mission in Serbia). 1915. Stamp-less envelope written from Skopje addressed to England endorsed 'On Active Service, Serbia' with bold double ring 'Serbian Relief Fund Unit/ Lady Paget's Hospital' in violet on face and signed by the Commander with Folkstone transit 'Aug 10 1915' and 'Opened By Censor' label applied.
The first unit of the Serbian Relief Fund a hospital of 600 beds arrived in Serbia November 1914 and was based in Skopje. At its head was Lady Paget the wife of an English diplomat in Serbia. By the summer of 1915 there were four Scottish hospitals in Serbia and part of Lady Paget's unit was dispatched to Mladenovac a tented hospital attached to the 2nd Serbian Army. On the 30th September the unit moved to Pirot on the Bulgarian border. It continued its work there until the evacuation on the 22nd October 1915.
