Habbaniya War Cemetery Grave Remembered - No 3

Sixty-nine years ago today, on the 5th March 1957, Senior Aircraftman Michael John Baker of the Royal Air Force, died in an accident when the lorry in which he was a passenger overturned on its way back to RAF Habbaniya. He was buried in the cemetery at Habbaniya in Plot 4 Row B Grave 6. He was only nineteen years old. May he rest in peace.

Attached below is a photograph of SAC Baker's headstone marking his Habbaniya War Cemetery grave as well as a wide-angle photograph of Plot 4. For more information on the burials at RAF Habbaniya, visit the Habbaniya section on Steve Buster Johnson's website.

Headstone for SAC Michael Baker at the Habbaniya War Cemetery, Iraq

Plot 4 at the Habbaniya War Cemetery, Iraq