My uncle's research for his biography of J. S. Haldane, which is sounding increasingly wonderful, has led him to these excellent pictures from the First World War (this one is of the Australian Light Horse passing through Bethlehem on their way to Jericho). They are of the war in the Middle East which tends to get forgotten with the understandably strong folk memory of the Western Front trenches. I think that we are often guilty of thinking of the Great War as essentially European and airbrushing out the wider confrontation.
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Great comment Matt. We often do forget that war- and also the war in Russia where the frontier was much more fluctuating and moved a lot more. So this is a good piece. Hope your uncle's biography of Haldane goes well.
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