Basra Cemeteries and Amara War Cemetery

Basra War Cemetery

There are several Commonwealth cemeteries (for armed forces personnel as well as civilians) contained within or in close proximity to the Basra War Cemetery. There is also the Basra Memorial which is located 15 miles south-east of the Basra War Cemetery and 6 miles west of Shaibah, honouring 40,633 members of the Commonwealth Forces who died in Mesopotamia during WW1 and whose final resting place is unknown.

The diagram below of the Basra War Cemetery shows the size and location of the main burial ground as well as the RAF Peace Cemetery and the Civil Cemetery. On the southern side of the 'British Army Cemetery Street' (the main road linking Basra and Shatt-al-Arab) lies the Basra Indian Forces Cemetery and contained within that cemetery is the Basra Cremation Memorial, commemorating 1,032 soldiers of the army of undivided India who died in Iraq and Iran during the Second World War.

Click on one of the links below if you have an enquiry specific to one of these locations

RAF (Makina) Peace Cemetery

Basra Memorial

Amara War Cemetery,

Below are GPS links for all of the Basra cemeteries as a satellite view as well as links to the Commonwealth War Graves web site giving details for most of the casualties.

Note: The CWGC website does not provide any details of the 71 burials

at the Basra RAF Cemetery, but they are all listed here on my website.