File:Nairobi1915.jpg
Summary
This postcard was sent by John Flatman who subsequently died in 1918 and is buried in the Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery.
His details from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website are:
- Rank: Guard
- Service No: 15427
- Regiment/Service: Indian Railway Department
- Iraq Railways (or Mesopotamian Railways), a unit in the Indian Army.
It is suspected that John Flatman was in East Africa as part of Indian Army campaign there, in some railway related capacity, possibly as part of the North-Western Railway Volunteers. However, no records have been located which would confirm or deny this. He had a family connection to the North Western Railway and it is very possible he worked there prior to working on trains for the Army, but again no records are available to confirm or deny this.
| Postcard Information | |
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| Title: | Sixth Avenue Nairobi, BRITISH EAST AFRICA |
| Subject: | Street Scene |
| Location: | Nairobi, British East Africa |
| Publisher: | The “Standard” P. and P. Works, Nairobi and Mombasa, B. E. Africa |
| Series: | |
| Date published: | c 1915 |
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| Process: | |
| Size: | 135mmx85 mm |
| Back: | Divided |
| Postal rate: | 2x3c (cent?) (one stamp each side of the postcard) |
| Postally used?: | Yes |
| Stamp: | two x3c (cent?) (one stamp each side of the postcard) |
| Date franked: | Nairobi 21 Oc 15 (21 October 1915) (each stamp)
Mombasa 24 Oc 15 (once: over the message) |
| Addressee: | Sydney, Australia |
| Message: | Dated 20/10/15 to sister |
| Condition: | reasonable for age |
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