Informal group portrait of Ottoman and German Army officers visiting the Mosque of Omar wearing ...

Accession Number P05737.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Ottoman Empire: Palestine, Jerusalem
Date made December 1916 - February 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal group portrait of Ottoman and German Army officers visiting the Mosque of Omar wearing snow overshoes. Identified second from left is General Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, one of a group of German officer who assisted the Ottoman Army. Many Australian and New Zealand soldiers collected these photographs of the enemy they were fighting in Palestine.

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