Page 19 - Celebrating Swiss Independence

1916 Military Field Post

As with the previous year the two cards were also issued without an imprinted stamp. Military personnel on active
duty were entitled to free-postage, and during the first world war sent their cards through the Field Post service.

4 August 1916: a National Festival card, issued to military personnel, used by a serving soldier writing
home to his family in Hottingen, Canton Zürich. Battalion 152 Field Post cachet

Children on an island (Switzerland - Island of Peace)
Artist: Hans Markwalder (1882-1951)
Printer: Orell Fussli, Zürich
No’s sold: 221,216

Sale Price: 20c, with 15c donated to the fund for Swiss soldiers and their families