photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1964-09-99-30
Description
Photograph from an album of 474 photographs compiled by Lt Gen Sir Ernest Bradfield (1880-1963), Indian Medical Service. Portrait group, probably on the Tigris River, near Baghdad, Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq). Civilians with a ‘gufa’, a large, circular boat used for river crossings. The coracle-style craft were traditionally made of wicker and coated in bitumen. Associated with World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918).
Campaigns
World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918)