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Journey through the Shamiyah country of Iraq (file)

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Title:: Journey through the Shamiyah country of Iraq

Collection:: LEES, Lt Aubrey Trevor Oswald (1899-1969)

Archive reference:: LEES/3/3

Catalogue record URL (AtoM):: https://archives.kingscollections.org/index.php/lees

Level of description:: Collection

Date of material:: 1924 Mar

Creator:: Lees, Lt Aubrey Trevor Oswald

Source collection title:: LEES, Lt Aubrey Trevor Oswald (1899-1969)

Description (scope):: Illustrated account of Lees' journey through the Shamiyah country of Iraq, 1924 Feb - Mar, and his encounters with Bedouin tribes.

Copyright:: Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.; King's College London Archives

Photograph

Title:: Three of Mizher's tribesmen (Southern Al Fatlah); Sheikh Mizher with entourage

Archive reference:: LEES/3/3

Catalogue record URL (AtoM):: https://archives.kingscollections.org/index.php/lees

Date of material:: 1924 Mar 02

Description:: Two black and white photographs, inserts.

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Journey through the Shamiyah country of Iraq (file)

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View out of train window, about sunset. Near Diwariyah (photograph)

3
The river at Diwariyah; Looking towards the Hawr Ibn Najm; Majid ibn Nseyt, Seyyid Khairi (photograph)

5
Diwaniyah (photograph)

6
Sheikh 'Abd-al-Hamza and Another; Sheikh 'Abd-es-Sa'ada, Northern Al Fatlah Sheihks (photograph)

7
Sheikh Radhi of Hillah, and his son Muhammad (photograph)

9
Hamidiyah (or Umm-al-ba'rur or Shamiyah); My hack. Ahmad. Pack pony. Policeman. On the road from Hamidiyah to Abu Sukhair (photograph)

11
River-front, Hamidiyah. (photograph)

12
Sheikh Baqr. Seyyidi Abbas. Friend of Nejet. al Zueyn Abusukhair. (photograph)

13
Old Telegraph Office. Abu Sukhair; En route for the Mishkhab [...] showing Ahmad 'Ali and the "Cop" (photograph)

15
Ja'ara Creek from Abu Sukhair; The Serai Abu Sukhair (photograph)

16
Sheikh Mizher Al Far'un of the Southern Al Fatlah; The Mishkab (photograph)

17
[landscape photographs with unidentified individuals] (photograph)

18
Mizher's Mudhif. or Guest-Hall; 'Abd-al'Abbas, Farik, Mizher, Sartib, the 19-yr. old relation (small son) - Sheikh Mizher al Far'un with his sons. (photograph)

19
Sartib Al Mizher with retainers (Mizher's eldest son) (photograph)

21
"Heluan W'haiwan" ("Beauty and the Beast") (photograph)

23
Three of Mizher's tribesmen (Southern Al Fatlah); Sheikh Mizher with entourage (photograph)

26
Mizher making his way down to the river with his suite; On the Mishkhab branch of the EuphratesMy tarada being towed to the "main stream" - Mishkhab; (photograph)

28
'Abud, the singer; The Suwariyah Suq (photograph)

29
[photograph of landscape with unidentified individual]; Mizher asleep in his tarada; Mizher arriving at the Suwariyah Suq; On the way to Suwariyah; Mizher's boatmen (mellaliyah) pulling his boat along; The river front; Suwariyah Suq (photograph)

30
Sheikhs 'Abd-ul-Wahid and Taklif (both Southern Al Falilah Sheikhs); Donkey turning water-wheel near Abu Sukhair; My horses etc in the Abu Sukhair ferry (the chattering policeman) (Ahmad 'Ali) (photograph)

31
Eliahu, Ezra's son - Hamidiyah (photograph)

33
The Jewish School, Hamidiyah; Leaving Hamidiyah en route for Muhannawiyah (photograph)

35
Ahmad 'Ali, clapping his hands; [photograph of landscape with river and unidentified individual] (photograph)

37
Muhannawiyah (photograph)

39
Sheikh Seyhud Al 'Abadi of the Northern Al Falilah (photograph)

41
The chirdag in which Seyhud housed me - Seyhud sitting in chair; on his right Tahir (with hand up to his agal) (photograph)

43
Sheikh Seyhud (sitting) with suite - standing on his right, Muhammed Shekhat (photograph)

44
'Ali al Thamir (photograph)

49
At Sheikh Riah's place, Muhannawiyah - Seyyd 'Abud Riah, and 'Ali (photograph)

54
Sheikh Thamir, Muhannawiyah (Northern Al Fatlah) (photograph)

56
My servants - Ghulam Reza (Persian), Nseyf (Arab), to illustrate the text; Ahmad 'Ali, Kadhm ('Ali's brother), Farhan, 'Ali, Seyyd 'Abud, ?, ? - outside Sheikh Thamir's Mudhif (photograph)

62
Car in the Tauq Chai (photograph)

69
[photographs of river] (photograph)

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