Basra Memorial Photos of Every (69) Real Panel
- Steve Johnson
- Sep 9, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 2
Ben Soppit visited the Basra Memorial in southern Iraq in 2025 and took photographs of the 69 panels commemorating the 40,633 Commonwealth servicemen (mainly British and Indian) who gave their lives in Mesopotamia during WW1 and were buried with no known grave. He has kindly given me permission to reproduce these photos on my website - click on the link below for a complete set of 69 enhanced images on my website, including a search facility to see which regiments are on which panel or panels
I have copied below images of the first four panels to give you an example of what they look like.
Details of the fallen can also be found by clicking on the Commonwealth War Graves website. or if you would like to see a set of 298 digitally-created panels, recently added to the the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website (now including the names of all the Indian Army casualties and not just their numbers by Regiment), you can visit the Digital Basra Memorial page of the CWGC website.
If anyone would like assistance in finding a particular serviceman or panel(s) on which a particular regiment appears, please send a message to Steve Buster Johnson via the Contact page on his website.
I have now completed this section. Here is the link to the page: https://www.stevebusterjohnson.com/basramakinarafcemetery/basra-memorial