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Sergeant of the 1st Assyrian Battalion, Iraq Levies, at Diana Camp, 1931

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Sergeant of the 1st Assyrian Battalion, Iraq Levies, at Diana Camp, 1931

Place
Iraq
Date
1931
Military

Three riders outside tents at the Levies camp at Diana near Rowanduz in northern Iraq: Captain Merry, an Assyrian sergeant of the 1st Assyrian Battalion of the Iraq Levies in a plumed slouch hat, and the travel writer Rosita Forbes, from excerpts of her book "Conflict" in The Sphere.

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Source

Internet Archive (The Sphere, 6 June 1931, p. 431, Rosita Forbes, "Conflict"; scan from the British Newspaper Archive)

The Sphere

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