British troops on the way to Baghdad, First World War mb-code 2328964 Hard Water and Inferior Soaps

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View of Albion Chapel

Mortimer Street

with inns on either side

View of the north front of the hospital showing a man being stretchered through the front gates

British troops on the way to Baghdad, First World War mb-code 2328964 Hard Water and Inferior SoapsBritish troops on the way to Baghdad, First World War, 1917, (c1920). The British under General Maude captured Baghdad in 1917. Then under the Ottoman Empire, Baghdad became part of the kingdom of Iraq created in 1921. Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914 1918, seventh edition, (The Swarthmore Press Ltd, London, c1920).