The card was posted in Marseille, but the date of posting cannot be read because the stamp has been removed.
The card was posted to:
Miss Enid Fryer, 'Dunkeld', Sydenham Park Road, Sydenham, Kent, England.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Moldavia. Dearest Enid, Here is a card to add to your collection. It is such lovely weather here. Your loving Auntie, Alice E. Fryer".
RMS Moldavia
RMS Moldavia was a British passenger steamship of the early 20th century. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) operated Moldavia on the England—Australia route via the Suez Canal.
She served as the Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser HMS Moldavia during World War I until sunk by a German Navy submarine.
Moldavia was serving as a troopship, and was carrying U.S. troops when she was sunk on the 23rd. May 1918 off Beachy Head in the English Channel.
She was struck by a single torpedo from the German submarine UB-57. Her sinking resulted in the deaths of 54 U.S. soldiers on board, and 1 further at Western Heights Military Hospital in Dover 2 days later.
The wreck site is protected and may be dived on a 'Look but don't touch basis'. Nothing may be removed from the wreck, and nobody may enter the vessel, as it is now a war grave.
Marseille
Marseille (English: Marseilles) is a city in southern France, capital of the Bouches-du-Rhône department.
Marseille is, with 859,543 inhabitants, the second most populous city in the country after Paris. It is the main economic center and the largest metropolis in the French South, and brings together nearly 1,605,000 inhabitants in its urban area, the third largest in the country, after Paris and Lyon.
It is the most important commercial port in the French Mediterranean and in the whole of France. It is a center of industrial activity specializing in petrochemicals and oil refining, shipbuilding and various industries.
Marseille is also a communications hub where the routes between Paris, Italy, Switzerland and Spain converge. Marseille is the seat of an archdiocese and of the University of Aix-Marseille, founded in 1409.
Marseille developed under the name of Massalia as a trading colony founded by Phocaean sailors around 600 BC., preserving the oldest remains of viticulture in France introduced in the fourth century BC.
It was incorporated into the French crown in 1481, and took advantage of its strategic alliance with the Ottoman Empire during the Renaissance and the Ancien Régime for its growth.
After the Revolution the city was the scene of the so-called White Terror, and during the 19th. century , the scene of rapid progress with French colonial expansion into Algeria and the opening of the Suez Canal.
It was partially destroyed during World War II, and one of the objectives of Operation Dragoon. It was a traditional place of passage for the migratory flows that increased the multicultural character of the city.
However the economic crisis of the 1970's, caused a notable decrease in the population, the loss of purchasing power and the accentuation of social conflicts in the last quarter of the 20th. century. Nevertheless Marseille has recovered to become one of the most important cities in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
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