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Rab Khamshi Giwargis teaching the Vickers machine gun at Habbaniya

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Rab Khamshi Giwargis teaching the Vickers machine gun at Habbaniya

Place
Habbaniya · today Iraq
Date
1942
Military

A Levies officer in a slouch hat, Rab Khamshi (commander of fifty) Giwargis, instructs four men in tribal dress, described as an Arab, a Kurd and two Assyrians, in the use of a Vickers machine gun at RAF Habbaniya. Book page from The Assyrian Levies (1996).

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