Gertrude Bell
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Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became infl
Gertrude Bell in 1909, visiting archaeological excavations in Babylon
1876 portrait of Sir Hugh Bell and his 8-year-old daughter Gertrude. Portrait by Edward Poynter.
1907 photograph of Bell and Fattuh, an Arab guide who accompanied her on many of her trips
Bell's workers at the Binbirkilise excavations in 1907
Charles Doughty-Wylie
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hotham Montagu "Richard" Doughty-Wylie, was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy t
Gertrude Bell
…1909. She had a "brief but passionate affair" with Swettenham following his retirement to England in 1904. She had an unconsummated affair with Major Charles Doughty-Wylie, a married man, with whom she exchanged love letters from 1913 to 1915. Doughty-Wylie died in April 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign, a loss which…
Charles Doughty Wylie VC