Lot 6516
1918, postcard written in Tiflis on the 3rd. of September 1918 with senders address "...Dt. Feldpost 907.." and blue military cachet "Feldflieger Abteilung No. 28" and adjacent cds. "Deutsche Feldpost -4.9.18, written by Lieutenant of the Reserve Kurt Atholdt addressed to Germany, a fine and very rare card, only very few mail of the airborne troops in the Caucasus ist known
On 1.8.1914 the field pilot department No. 28 was set up by the air force battalion 3 (2nd comp.), on 10.1.1917 it was renamed in air force department 28. The department was stationed in Macedonia and briefly in the Caucasus.
At the request of the chief of the delegation in the Caucasus, Kress v. Kressenstein, the field pilot department 28 was relocated in parts to the Caucasus in order to fly aerial reconnaissance. A transfer from there apparently took place at the end of July 1918 (see also ArGe Deutsche Feldpost 1914-1918, Rundbrief 138/2000).
