PhotographAA-0337

Sagis Yarn, Assyrian interpreter from Urmia, with visitors at Korkora

Place: Persia · today Iran
Date: 1918

Five men at Korkora, Persia, during the First World War. AWM identifies the man on the right as Sagis Yarn, an Assyrian from Urmia and Captain Williams's interpreter, and another as Zachariah, a Jewish merchant.

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Australian War Memorial

Sagis Yarn, Assyrian interpreter from Urmia, with visitors at Korkora

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