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FINLAND French Naval Mission

Helsinki 9 April 1923

A civil war between the official White forces and Red Guards supported by the Bolshevik government in Russia ended in mid-1918 but the Russians remained a threat to the Finnish Republic. As a result, the French sent a Naval Mission to support and advise the Finns. Above cover sent by a member of the Mission to the Chief Commissioner of the Naval Administrative Center in Paris. Franked with 2 markka in stamps and sent via the Finnish civil postal system.


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