The Memoir of Col. W.A. Lyon in Kurdistan
Wallace Lyon was an administrator in Iraq from the end of the war with the Ottoman Empire in 1918 until near the end of the Second World War.
He was sent to Kurdistan where he spent most of the next twenty-six years. After retirement, he wrote his memoirs. This, as is explained in ‘A Note on Spelling’, was done secretively and was completed in 1964.
By contrast with these men, Lyon stayed almost continuously in Kurdistan until 1944, and this gives his memoir its special value. It provides a detailed and lively account of the life and work of a Briton who had to deal with the problems of a mixed Arab, Turkish, and Kurdish population, and in particular with the feuds of the Kurdish shaikhs in the mountains.
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