Author: Browne, Brigadier J. Gilbert.
Title: THE IRAQ LEVIES 1915-1932.
Description: Royal United Service Institution, 1932. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. viii + 88pp. 2 plates, 3 folding maps. Age toning, some spotting, with Museum Tenby Art Gallery ink stamp and library numbers to front f.e.p., gilt lettered brown cloth with gilt device to upper board and double blue diagonal stripes, some water marks, stain to head of spine, spine and corners frayed with couple of nicks to edges. ¶ With the signature and scholarly pencil notes of Lt.-Col. F. Day continuing the history from April 1932 to September 1935. With a fragment of a letter sent from 2nd Assyrian Bn. Iraq Levies Sulaimenia Iraq 18.1.31. to ‘My darling mother ... an excellent bridge player and a burra mendsahib of the worst type with a terrific tongue!... I had a final lesson before my arabic exam of tomorrow, & my munshi bought with him a pair of carpets ...’ Detailed and very scarce history of the Levies, formed 1919 from various wartime irregular units and disbanded when Iraq became independent in 1932. John Gilbert Browne (1878-1968). He saw action with his regiment during the South African War 1900-1902, and was awarded the Queen's South African Medal and the King's South African Medal. September 1914 Browne was assigned to the staff of General H I W Hamilton, commanding the 3rd Division, in October he was appointed as GSO2 on the staff of the newly formed Cavalry Corps, commanded by Lt.-General Allenby, where he remained until the end of the month when he was recalled to England. Browne did not serve in France or Flanders again, taking up various appointments and commands in England until 1916 and then serving overseas as an officer with the Middle East and Egyptian Expeditionary Forces until the end of the war. In peacetime he commanded his own regiment 1921-25, which on 1 Oct 1922 amalgamated and was renamed the 14/20th King's Hussars. From 1925 until he retired in 1933, he served in the Middle East commanding the Iraq Levies.

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