Photograph taken on 11 February 1917 on the day of the investiture of Tafari Makonnen, the future Emperor Haile Selassie, as regent. On the right, Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, British Consul-General and Minister Plenipotentiary to Ethiopia (1909-1919) and father of explorer and travel writer Wilfred Thesiger, born in Addis Ababa in 1910.
Unknown, 1917
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National Archives UK