Urmia refugees on horseback trekking through Bijar, 1918

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Urmia refugees on horseback trekking through Bijar, 1918

Place
Persia · today Iran
Date
1918

A woman in a headscarf rides a laden horse among a mounted column of refugees from Urmia passing through Bijar in western Persia in 1918. The Australian War Memorial caption speaks of some of the 80,000 refugees from Urmia.

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Source

Wikimedia Commons (copy of Australian War Memorial J01263)

Unknown member of the 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron · Wikimedia Commons license: Public domain. AWM item: Copyright expired - public domain.