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Can anyone translate this handwritten inscription in an old book?(lemmy.ml)

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Google image translate was able to get me as far as “For our…” and “on behalf of”, but that’s it.

It’s a 1924 edition of Hegel’s Lectures on Philosophy of History, in German, published by Philipp Reclam Jun. of Leipzig as part of the Reclam Universal Library. I picked it up years ago at a second hand book sale along with a ton of other books, just got around to noticing the stamp and inscription. As far as I can tell from a bit of googling, the stamp indicates this book was sent or received by a German prisoner of war in a British labour camp in Egypt, probably the suez canal zone. I couldn’t find an exact location for German Independent Working Company 2719.

Anyway, would love a translation of the handwriting if anyone can figure it out. The combination of messy writing, possibly abbreviations, and a language I don’t speak has stumped me.

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That’s what i can gather from it:

For our comrade Mar. L. (unsure)

On behalf of Wilh. Prinz. 
Mainz-Mombach
Hauptstrasse 46 II

Wilh. is surely “Wilhelm”

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I came to the same conclusions.

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