Item HT 2705 Postcard - Kotsos Vrahamis to Lili Vrahamis, Asia Minor, 20 Nov 1921

Summary

Postcard from Kotsos Vrahamis to his sister Lili Vrahamis, written on the 20th November 1921, during his time in Asia Minor with the Army. Lili Sigalas (nee Vrahamis), born in 1904, migrated to Australia in 1922 to marry Letho Sigalas. The couple were married at the Greek Orthodox Church on Victoria Parade, Melbourne in 1923. Lili was active in the Melbourne Greek community and was a member of the International Club and the Greek Red Cross. Letho passed away in 1964 and from 1966 onwards Lili divided her time between Melbourne and Greece. She passed away in Melbourne in the 1990s.

Kotsos was in Asia Minor with the Greek Army as part of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922. The Greco-Turkish War was a series of military events which occurred during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after World War I between May 1919 and October 1922. The war was fought between Greece and Turkish revolutionaries of the Turkish National Movement. The Greek campaign was launched because Greece had been promised territorial gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. The result of this war was that Greece gave up the territory it gained during the war, returning to its pre-war borders, and engaging in a population exchange with the newly established state of Türkiye under provisions in the Treaty of Lausanne.

Physical Description

Black and white postcard featuring picture of woman playing instrument with white horse against painted outdoor landscape. The reverse of the postcard has extensive text written in Greek in blue ink.