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This picture shows three of the prime movers
behind the Arab campaign in
Palestine and Syria meet for
tea at Wadi Quntilla in August
1917. Seated centre are Jafar
Pasha al-Askari, the Emir Feisal
and Colonel Pierce C. Joyce.
Jafar Pasha was a former
Ottoman officer who
commanded the Arab Regular
army from 1917. Joyce, a
colonel in the Connaught
Rangers who had been
serving in Egypt since 1907,
was commanding officer of
Operation Hedgehog, the
British military mission to the
Arab Northern Army.
Image courtesy of Imperial War Museum |
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