Collection: The British In Iraq - First Time Around: Lees, A T O lees-7-1-3-00049-64208
Description
Photograph of Lt Aubrey Lees' study. The caption on the reverse, written by Lt Aubrey Lees, reads: "One view of my study. The table, the top of which you can see in the middle foreground, is the one at which I sit and write my letters to you. The white hazy horizontal lines across the Persian tapestries are the light shining through the cracks of the wooden wall. On the wooden bench are boxes containing my gramophone records." Part of a collection of photographs from Lees' time in Iraq [1922-1925].
Collection
The British In Iraq - First Time Around: Lees, A T O
Description
A collection of photographs relating the service of Lt Aubrey Trevor Oswald Lees in Iraq during the early 1920s, during the British mandate of the territory following the break up of the Ottoman Empire. Lees was employed under the Colonial Office with the Arab and Kurdish Levies in 1922; commanded…
Collection Terms & Categories
- War/Campaign/Operation: Peacetime
- Asia: Middle East
- Theme (Main): Cultures & Customs
- Theme (Main): Daily Life
- Theme (Main): Empire & Commonwealth
- Theme (Main): Ethics, Religion & Morality
- Theme (Main): Natural World
- Theme (Main): Travel & Exploration
- Subject: Animals & The Natural World
- Subject: Armoured Warfare
- Subject: Civilians & Civ-Mil Relations
- Subject: Communications
- Subject: Logistics
- Subject: Nation Building
- Subject: Naval, Sea & Ships
- Subject: Parades, Drills & Manoeuvres
- Subject: Peacekeeping
- Subject: Sport & Recreation
- Subject: Transport
- Item: Photographic (loose)
- Information: Visual
