Aircraft Depot RAF Hinaidi

It is not often that photographs come to light of men who served in Iraq, specifically at the RAF Hinaidi base which was operational between April 1921 and January 1938. Thanks to Tony D'Errico, who sent me a postcard of his maternal grandfather, I can add another face to the thousands of British servicemen who served in Iraq during the nineteen-twenties and nineteen-thirties.

Though little is known of service career with the Royal Air Force, at the time the attached photograph was taken, Sergeant Harold Bartlett of the Royal Air Force was assigned to the Aircraft Depot at RAF Hinaidi, albeit in his own words, "Roaming in Iraq again for 2 more years". Judging by the fact that the term "Aircraft Depot" was not officially in use inj Iraq until 1929 and by guessing his age in the photograph, I would say that the photograph was taken around 1932.

For more details of the Aircraft Depot at RAF Hinaidi, see the AIRCRAFT DEPOT HINAIDI page of this website.

Sergeant Harold Bartlett, Aircraft Depot, RAF Hinaidi, Baghdad

Sgt Harold Bartlett, Aircraft Depot, RAF Hinaidi