Jaafar

[tr ed p 166], pastel, Kennington

'Jaafar' typeset brc. Main colours: brown/cream tones in face and belt, reds and yellows in lapel facings, military decorations in full colour, background green at top, grey at bottom.

General Jaafar Pasha, Commander of the Hejaz Northern Regular Army under Feisal.

pp 145/6 [tr ed pp 166/7] - 'We received a great reinforcement to our cause in Jaafar Pasha, a Bagdadi officer from the Turkish Army . . . one day he read in an Arabic newspaper of the Sherif's revolt, and of the execution by the Turks of prominent Arab Nationalists - his friends - and realised that he had been on the wrong side.

'Feisal had heard of him, of course, and wanted him as commander-in-chief of his regular troops, whose improvement was now our main effort. We knew that Jaafar was one of the few men with enough of reputation and personality to weld their difficult and reciprocally disagreeable elements into an army.'

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