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The Military Provost Staff Corps (MPSC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for operating military prisons, detention barracks, and corrective establishments.
Inside, Greeting and Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year, and printed at bottom:
57 MILITARY PRISON AND DETENTION BARRACK M.E.L.F. 16.
This is the unit operating a British military detention facility, and M.E.L.F. = Middle East Land Forces, the British Army command in the Middle East during the postwar and early Cold War period. Based on routing number ('16') location is Suez Canal Zone of Egypt, specifically in the Fayid or Moascar / Ismailia garrison areas. British forces withdrew from the Canal Zone in 1954–1956
Handwritten message in French, with list of names of those who are recipients of wishes. At bottom is Serenity Prayer in French. Signed by E.G R.A.M.E. (Royal Army Medical Corps)
10 x 12 ½ cm
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