b'256969C Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27a) a Ross Smith vignette attractively tied by one of 2 strikes of the oval FIRST AERIAL MAIL cachet on a cover picked up at RAMADI, MESOPOTAMIA, one of the refuelling stops on the flight from England to Australia. With the three-line violet h/stamp on the back flap together with the senders name and address. The lot also includes the original handwritten enclosure .an aeroplane came hovering around the camp and landed and out came 5 Aussiesone of them has promised to carry this through the air and post it for me in Aussie. A marvellous example of an intermediate from this important flight. The sender, Corporal James Thomson was located at Ramadi as part of the 6th Light Light Armoured Motor Battery. The cover is #318 in the Frommer listing, illustrated at page 85.Provenance: Lucien Toutounji .$8,00010,000'