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Evening star., March 31, 1918, Page 2, column 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1918-03-31/ed-... reports that Yarrow was "at the head of a large committee of American relief workers in and around Erivan, Russia."

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George Frederick Handel Gracey (1878 - 1958) www.vyger.co.uk/obituary/ www.vyger.co.uk/george-frederick-handel/ www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/12804 The New-York tribune., January 13, 1918, Page 7, col. 1 reported that his industrial work at Urfa was destroyed by the Turks and he contributed his expert knowledge in building up the relief organization. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1918-01-13/ed-... According to 'The Untold Story of Native Iraqis: Chaldean Mesopotamians 5300 BC - Present', by Amer Hanna-Fatuhi, Captain George F. Gracey was DSO (Defence Security Officer) of the British Intelligence Service. books.google.com/books?id=sQtOAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT177

The city was renamed Yerevan (Ереван) in 1936. Ernest Alfred Yarrow (21 February 1876 – 26 October 1939) was a Christian missionary and a witness to the main Armenian Genocide of 1915. He is also known for his leadership of a relief effort carried out by the Near East Foundation that saved and cared for tens of thousands of Armenian refugees.

Ernest Alfred Yarrow (21 February 1876 – 26 October 1939) was a Christian missionary and a witness to the Armenian Genocide. He is also known for his leadership of a relief effort carried out by the Near East Foundation that saved and cared for tens of thousands of Armenian refugees. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Yarrow

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Sad and hopeful from 1915-16 a century ago how history repeats in places like Aleppo in Syria with the the intrusive , often oil-seeking colonial powers..Many christian Armenians fled to Aleppo from post Ottoman Turkey.

He was an official in Near East Relief in the 20's, like some of the others in this 1927 series, a U.S. foreign aid program created in response to the Armenian Genocide: "Acheson, Rev. George Barclay D.D.: Leader in the Near East Relief movement and New Era Movement for the Presbyterian Church in the 1920's and 30's. Awarded the Greek Red Cross Medal (1927) & Order of the Phoenix of Greece (1930)." www.armenian-genocide.org/ner.html home.gwi.net/ages/Main Body/Noteworthy Kinsmen.html books.google.com/books?id=jvJMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA157&d... Brother of Lila Bell Wallace, co-founder of Readers Digest. He was in New York on January 19, 1927 , to address the annual meeting of Near East Relief as its Director General of Overseas Operations. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D11FF3E5B157A... The four honorees pictured in this collection: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/neareastre...

artolog: Thank you for the very detailed information on Rev. Acheson, complete with citations. This will be very helpful in expanding the description of this photo.

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