'Nearing Bagdad: British transport column passing the ruins of the ancient arch of Ctesiphon', (c1920). '...near the scene of General Townshend's costly victory on November 22, 1915'. First World War: soldiers going past the Taq Kasra or Archway of Ctesiphon, a 3rd-6th-century Sasanian-era Persian monument in Iraq. Drawn by Frédéric de Haenen. From "The Great World War: A History", Volume VII, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]

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