P00562.129 Accession Number: P00562.129

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1918-08. Portrait of Major General L. C. Dunsterville, British Officer of the Indian Regular Army, leader of the Dunsterforce expedition which included forty members of the AIF. He is seated in a Ford car with a Russian officer (obscured) and members of his staff (not seen) . The main purpose of Dunsterforce was to reorganise resistance in Mesopotamia and Persia to German penetration of Asia during the period 1918 to 1919.

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Accession Number
P00562.129
Photographer
British War Office Cinematograph Committee (still From Movie Film)
Classification
Photograph
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor E. Keast Burke
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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