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1905 (Oct) Coloured picture postcard entitled “Our men charging enemy of the East Keekwanshan” to Hiroshima from Hospital Ship Kouun-Maru datelined “At Yongampo, Chosen, Hospital Ship Kouun-Maru” & cancelled on arrival vernacular Liaotung Commissariat FPO 12 (10 Oct) cds & with red unframed Military Mail plus over inked Hiroshima (31 Oct) arrival cds …….On the 7 February 1905 a party of 2 Doctors & 22 Nurses from the 38th RRelief Squad transferred from the H.S. Dairen-Maru to H.S. Kouun-Maru which then made a total of 23 trips Dairen-Yokahama-Tadotsu-Unjina carrying a total of 6653 sick or injured soldiers with the last day of there voyages being 24 January 1906