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Iraq Levies on parade at Hinaidi Camp, Baghdad, 1934

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Iraq Levies on parade at Hinaidi Camp, Baghdad, 1934

Place
Baghdad · today Iraq
Date
1934
MilitaryNewspaper

A long line of Iraq Levies with fixed bayonets inspected by a mounted British officer at Hinaidi Camp near Baghdad. The Sphere notes the force guarded the RAF bases and was made up of Assyrians, Arabs and Kurds; Dutch papers printing the same photo called them Assyrian soldiers.

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Source

Internet Archive (The Sphere, 14 April 1934, p. 57, "Military Matters"; scan from the British Newspaper Archive)

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