Camel Sowar, The Tyli Reconnaissance, July 1916.
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1983-12-72-73
Description
Photograph: Camel Sowar, The Tyli Reconnaissance, July 1916. Indian mounted soldiers were known as ‘sowars’, even when their mounts were not horses but camels, as in this photograph taken during the Mesopotamia Campaign (in modern Iraq). Inscribed as title on reverse. From a collection of 265 photographs compiled by Maj W Leith-Ross, Indian Army Staff, 1915-1917. Associated with World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918).
Campaigns
World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918)
