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Flight Sgt Rehanna Cherry with an Assyrian Levy in native dress

Place: Habbaniya · today Iraq
Date: 1940s

Flight Sergeant Rehanna Cherry (right), with a notebook, checks out a soldier of the Assyrian Levies going on leave, who stands at attention in Assyrian mountain dress and a fringed turban. Likely at RAF Habbaniya during the Second World War.

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Assyrian Archive (Instagram @assyrianarchive)

Flight Sgt Rehanna Cherry with an Assyrian Levy in native dress

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