Habbaniyah War Cemetery Grave Remembered - No: 1

On Valentine's day in 1942, exactly eighty-four years ago, Captain Kenneth Harry Handley of the Indian Army Ordnance Corps (Service No: 146340) was killed at RAF Habbaniya in Iraq and buried in the cemetery there with full honours.

May he rest in peace.

Here is a link to images of the burials close to the grave of Captain Handley - https://www.stevebusterjohnson.com/habbaniya-cemetery-restoration/habbaniya-burial-locations/plot-5-photos

Note that my website is the only place where you will find headstone photographs for all of the 290 burials at the Habbaniyah War Cemetery, including a photograph for the grave which currently does not have a headstone, that of First Officer Oskar Kristiansen of the Norwegian Navy who died on the 26th March 1945. I have informed the CWGC and it has been agreed that the CWGC will manufacture a new headstone on behalf of the Norwegian Government and will erect it in the correct position when cemetery maintenance is next carried out.

Plot 5 of Habbaniyah War Cemetery, Iraq