A postcard sent in 1916 from the felpost station 166. This feldpost station was along with the 40th reserve corps, active around the border area which Kybartai is part of. They later move to Vilnius. Many might be wondering why i wrote Kybartai and not Wirballen (now Virbalis, Lithuania) as it says on the postcard. At the time this postcard was written, it was Wirballen/Virbalis railway station, but the town itself was far from the station. So later they renamed the station Kybartai(Kibarten in german) after the village near by. The present town of Virbalis does not have a railway station.
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