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Baghdad: Kurdish Levies in a Barrack Room, 1943 (w/c on paper )

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IWM3737944
Image title
Baghdad: Kurdish Levies in a Barrack Room, 1943 (w/c on paper )
Artist
Bawden, Edward (1903-89) / English
Location
Imperial War Museum, London, UK
Medium
watercolour on paper
Date
1943 AD (C20th AD)
Dimensions
38.4x49.5 cms
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Kurdish levies in desert fatigues standing and sitting around the edge of a barrack room with a row of guns in a stand in the centre. In the foreground one man stands with his rifle pointing up towards the ceiling, looking at his finger on the trigger. The Assyrian Levies, alternatively known as the Iraq Levies, was the first Iraqi military force established by the British in British controlled Iraq.

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