General-John-Shea-and-staff-9 December-2017-Jerusalem-Matson-Photo-Service
General Sir John Stuart Mackenzie Shea, commander of the 60th Division, and his staff after accepting the keys of the City of Jerusalem from the mayor Hussein al-Husayni, symbolising Ottoman surrender of the city to the British during World War I. The photo was later used in the Encyclopaedia Judaica 1927, illustration 74/237veg. (from back of photo)
- Date
- 1917-12-09
- Photographer / author
- Matson-Photo-Service
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 1,572 × 1,600 pixels
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Reason: its US copyright has expired (published before 1931).
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