British troops on the way to Baghdad, First World War Finish:20-pack Signed and Inscribed lower left:

Signed and Inscribed lower left: "F

A battalion approaching the front

The figure is from 'An account of the cause of the change of the variation of the magnetical needle with an hypothesis of the structure of the internal parts of the Earthà'

Photograph taken looking east down Throgmorton Street towards Old Broad Street

British troops on the way to Baghdad, First World War Finish:20-pack Signed and Inscribed lower left:British 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).