PhotographAA-0338

Armenian, Assyrian and Persian servants at the headquarters in Bijar

Place: Persia · today Iran
Date: 1918

Servants at the Imperial Forces headquarters in Bijar, Persia, during the First World War, some holding a samovar. AWM says they are Armenians, Assyrians and Persians, without saying which is which.

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Australian War Memorial

Armenian, Assyrian and Persian servants at the headquarters in Bijar

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