C'est quoi ? Sécurité Sanitaire Américaine N???

Bonjour !
c'est quoi ces convois ?
N comme Nord ?

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on dirait que le timbre, probablement apposé par l'administration en raison de la franchise militaire de ce soldat US a été collé sur un premier cachet à date, puis oblitéré

Merci de m'éclairer

bonjour,

carte envoyée en franchise par un soldat affecté dans une S.S.U. (section sanitaire automobile américaine), à transmettre par le bureau central militaire. L'affranchissement pour les States est offert par la France.

http://www.ourstory.info/library/2-ww1/Smucker/usaac07.html

Le S.S.U. 21 est rapidement devenu S.S.U. 521, semble t'il.

D.

Si le S.S.U. 21 devenu 521 semble un poil tardif pour avoir été en France dès juin 1917, il s'agit peut-être d'un S.S.U. 21 antérieur, intégré à un Corps motorisé d'ambulanciers volontaires américains :

Wiki
"Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps is the historical name given to The American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps, which was an organization started in London England in the fall of 1914 by Richard Norton, a noted archeologist and the son of Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton. It's mission was to assist the movement of wounded Allied troops from the battlefields to hospitals in France during World War I. The Corps began with two cars and four drivers. The service was associated with the British Red Cross and St. John Ambulance."

The "Harjes" part of the name refers to Henry Herman Harjes, a French millionaire banker who wish to help Norton by donating funds and ambulances." This ambulance group known as "the Formation Harjes" in 1915 was accepted into the French automobile service and designated "Section 5", (SSU 5).

Richard Norton and Herman Harjes agreed to combine their organizations in 1916 becoming the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps.

In 1917 when the volunteer ambulance service were absorbed by the US Army, the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps disbanded and many of its member volunteered for service in Italy with the Red Cross. Richard Norton died in 1918 and Herman Harjes was killed in a polo accident in 1926 ; as a result the Norton-Harjes Formation does not have the written legacy the the American Field Service has which combined with the small number of actual volunteers has shadowed them into relative obscurity. The most famous of the N-H volunteers were John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings and Robert Hillyer.

The following are the known Norton-Harjes Ambulance sections:
SSU 5
SSU 6
SSU 7
SSU 11
SSU 21
SSU 22
SSU 24
SSU 58
SSU 59
SSU 60
SSU 61
SSU 63"

http://www.ourstory.info/2/a/Norton.html

D.

PS : la griffe dit  "Sec. San. Américaine N° 21"

Le timbre appliqué sous le timbre-poste pourrait dire Trésor et postes * 213 *, le secteur 213 étant affecté à la mission française attachée à l'Armée anglaise. Le texte en lien ci-dessus (et dessous) dit bien que ce corps de volontaire dépendait des anglais, mais il serait passé par la suite sous autorité française.

"This corps began its work under the joint auspices of the British Red Cross and the St. John Ambulance. It was thus primarily an offering of American aid to the English cause. As the War proceeded, it became desirable, under the British Army regulations, to transfer the association of the corps to the American Red Cross, and to place its service at the disposal of the French Army. It is now, therefore, a militarized corps serving a definite division of one of the armies of France."

Il y a peut-être moyen de distinguer le n° de SP, avec une forte vue et une bonne loupe (ou l'inverse).

D.