Of the 197 RAF personnel buried at the Ma' Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery (Hinaidi RAF Peace Cemetery), 24 were serving with the Armoured Car Companies stationed in Mesopotamia (Nos 1 and 2 of the Tank Corps in Egypt and Trans Jordan and Nos 3, 4, 5 and 6 in Iraq) or at the Armoured Car Wing HQ. 

 

Note that No 2 Armoured Car Company remained under the control of the Tank Corps (later the Royal Tank Corps which was eventually absorbed into the Royal Tank Regiment with seven other and moved away from operating in Egypt and Jordan in 1923 to India) whereas the other five Armoured Car Companies remained under the control of the RAF operating in Iraq and were later absorbed in to the RAF Regiment. Click HERE for the history of the RAF Armoured Car Companies.

 

Listed in the table at the bottom of this page, appearing in chronological order of date of burial, is a summary of the twenty-four Armoured Car Company men who died, the cause of their death and the location of every grave. Service details and honours are also provided for each of the officers as well as the various RAF units served by each officer during his RFC / RAF /Army career. You can sortt by a column, scroll through the data or search by entering a character string.

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Note that two of the men buried at Hinaidi were commanding officers of No 6 Armoured Car Company, with the first, Squadron Leader Andrew Cruikshank, the officer commanding when No 6 Armoured Car Company was formed in 1922. Note also that four of the officers listed were WW1 veterans who between them shared one OBE, one MBE, one MC and a MiD.

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For full details behind the deaths of two Armoured Car Company men buried at Ma'asker Al Raschid, click on Rosavaere or Kerslake.

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Note also that (unlike the other Armoured Car Companies) No 5 Armoured Car Company which was stationed within the Hinaidi cantonment, fell directly under the control of No 6 Squadron RAF.

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Pictured below is a solitary 6 Squadron Bristol FB2 Fighter stranded in the desert with mechanics working on the Rolls Royce Falcon III V-12 engine that has been removed from the airframe by means of a makeshift hoist. In the background are several armoured cars and transport lorries as well as many tents and about twenty men, most likely from No 5 Armoured Car Company. The second photograph was taken at about the same time and is an aerial shot of 6 Squadron's Bristol FB2 'Brisfit' Serial No: F4731 

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