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'MAP 20 MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE ACTION OF BAIT ISA ON 17TH. & 18TH. APRIL 1916 AND THE ATTACK ON SANNAIYAT 22ND. APRIL 1916'
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918. Volume II, and shows a region around Bait Isa and Sannaiyat [Aş Şinā‘āt] in central and eastern Iraq, indicating military operations, trenches, settlements, watercourses and marshes. Prepared in the Historical Section of the Committee o...
'MAP 36 TO ILLUSTRATE THE ACTIONS AT DAUR ON THE 22ND. AND TIKRIT ON THE 5TH. NOVEMBER, 1917.'
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918. Volume IV, and shows a region around Tikrit and Daur [Ad Dawr] in central Iraq, indicating military operations, towns, settlements, routes and watercourses, with brief descriptions of terrain. Sketch marks give some indication of relief....
'MAP 40 TO ILLUSTRATE THE CAVALRY AFFAIR of the 27th. April, 1918, and THE ACTION OF TUZ KHURMATLI, 29th. April, 1918.'
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918. Volume IV, and shows a region around Tuz Khurmatli [Tozkhurmato] in northern and eastern Iraq, indicating military operations, towns, routes and watercourses. Sketch marks give some indication of relief, and a key beneath the title expla...
Drawing water at Ritong. All except the bottom joint or partition are broken through with a stick. Photographer: Unknown
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Showing military personnel and porters gathering water at a stream outside a stockade. The caption refers to the bamboo poles used for transporting water.
The supports on the left bank of the Ngawchang Hka of the cane suspension bridge opposite Lampang village. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the rocky riverbank towards the bridge. The caption note continues: 'The wooden uprights are jammed into a cleft between two large boulders: the canes are fastened to the rocks, instead of to trees as is usually the case. When the Ngawchang Hka is...
Cane suspension aqueduct across the Munlang Hka at Shijang (middle Ngawchang Valley). (There is a cane foot bridge beyond the aqueduct). Photographer: Unknown
