Press cutting from an unidentified newspaper commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Fall of Kut, 1926 (c).
From a collection of manuscript diaries and other papers relating to the service of Lt Col Henry Spencer Cardew, MC, 1/39th Garhwalis, as a  Signals Officer with 34th Signal Company, 6th (Poona) Division in Mesopotamia, September 1915- April 1916 and his subsequent captivity after the capture at Kut al Amara.
Associated with the Battle of Es Sinn (1915), the Battle of Ctesiphon (1915) and the Siege of Kut (1915-1916), World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918) and World War One, POWs (1914-1918).