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Image: Indian troops in the firing line, Mesopotamia, January 1915

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Description: The bulk of the British forces engaged against the Ottoman Turks in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) were from the Indian Army. Here a group from the 120th Rajputana Infantry train with a machine-gun and rifles while their British officer, Captain W. Andrews, looks on. Andrews was later killed in action at the Battle of Shaiba on 12 April 1915.
Title: Indian troops in the firing line, Mesopotamia, January 1915
Credit: https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1966-02-97-31
Author: From an album of 121 photographs compiled by Captain C O R Mosse, 120th Rajputana Infantry.
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