Jacket : Major General Shukri Pasha, Turkish Army

Turkish Army Ottoman general officer's fawn woollen jacket, which is a very similiar pattern to the German Army 'Bluse' jacket. This single breasted jacket has a stand and fall collar that is fastened with a pair of brass hook-and-eye fittings. Red trim is sewn to the edge of the collar. The detachable plaited golden silk shoulder boards have red backing and no stars are fitted to them, which indicates that the rank of the wearer was liva (major general). There are six concealed brown-painted zinc buttons down the front opening. The back of the buttons are impressed with arabic words. A pocket with a buttoned flap has been let into both of the front panels below the waistline. The flaps on the pockets are pointed beneath the buttonhole. There are a pair of brass belt hooks on the waistline at the back of the jacket. A pair of buttons fastens the small vertical opening at the back of both sleeve cuffs. A pocket has been let into the brown cotton lining on both sides of the breast. The sleeves are lined with striped white cotton. All of the pocket linings are made from mustard coloured cotton.

Accessioning information suggests that these pantaloons were worn by an Ottoman Major General Ehinkri Pasha, of the Turkish Army, who was governor of Medina. They were collected in Palestine by the Australian War Records Section. The wearer's name may have been recorded incorrectly, because no reference can be found to the name Ehinkri in any history of the war in the middle east. The original register entry is handwritten and would have been transposed from other records. From the handwriting it is probable that the Major General's surname would have been Shukri. Shukri Pasha al Ayoubi was, however, military governor of Damascus, not Medina.