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Assyrian Levies sports club teams with trophies, 1954

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Assyrian Levies sports club teams with trophies, 1954

Place
Habbaniya · today Iraq
Date
1954
SportsMilitary

Three rows of athletes of the Assyrian Levies sports club pose behind a table of trophies marked "Depot Athletics 1954": the athletics team seated in front, the tug-of-war team in the middle and the marathon runners standing in checked shirts at the back. The caption names an English officer seated in the middle of the front row, with Odisho B'Malik Khiyo to his right. Likely at RAF Habbaniya, the Levies depot.

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Source

Assyrian RAF Levies website (assyrianlevies.info), page dedicated by Barseen Oshana

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