Card from HMHS Oxfordshire

[Chris Weddell]

Hi All.
      I have just got this card from HMHS Oxfordshire. It has a dated machine cancel for the 21st of July 1916. The sender was onboard the Oxfordshire as a patient i think and was was leaving on her. What i would like to know is where was she going. On top of the card  it says c/o india office should find me.
                                             
                                                      Thankyou
                                                   
                                                      Chris W.

[Chris Weddell]

Hi,
    This is the other side of the card.

                    Chris W

[Peter Harvey]

Hi Chris,

I have a note from a previous sold card from Le Harve 16 July, so assume from there back to Southampton. However a quick google told me, the Oxfordshire served in the Persian Gulf and German East Africa during December 1916 and in 1918 as a shuttle hospital ship in the English Channel, so now a little uncertain!

Peter

[Chris Weddell]

Hi Peter.
            Thankyou for you help.This was the info i also found i just could not tie down where the Oxfordshire was going at this time.

                                    Chris W.

[Peter High]

I have a cover from HMHS Oxfordshire addressed to India. It has a mute cancellation of Malta on the front and, on the reverse, Indian cds's of 6th and 8th July 1916.

[Just for the record, I have a photograph of the Oxfordshire in hospital ship colours taken at Dar es Salaam on 19 December 1916 (Imperial War Museum). She was there assisting in the German East Africa Campaign.

[Chris Weddell]

Hi Everyone,
                  Thankyou all for the help with this card. It look like the Oxfordshire was on her way to India.

                                                Chris