PhotographAA-0264

A private of the Levy infantry, an Assyrian from Tkhuma

Place: Iraq
Date: 1920s

Portrait of a young Assyrian soldier of the Iraq Levies from Tkhuma, in a plumed slouch hat with a bandolier across his chest.

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Source

Wigram, The Assyrians and Their Neighbours (1929), via Internet Archive

W. A. Wigram (author); photographers not named · Published 1929 in London (G. Bell & Sons); public domain in the United States (published before 1930).

A private of the Levy infantry, an Assyrian from Tkhuma

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