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Iraq Levy with raised dagger, photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1942
A Levy soldier in an embroidered jacket, sash and head-cloth raises a dagger, photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1942. IWM's caption calls him "a spectacularly robed and turbaned Iraqi Levi"; the Levies were then largely Assyrian, but the caption does not say so.
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Wikimedia Commons (copy of Imperial War Museums CBM 2235, Cecil Beaton in the Middle East, 1942)
Beaton, Cecil · Public domain (PD-UKGov on Commons; Crown copyright expired)
