Ma'Asker Al Raschid Cemetery Grave Remembered - No 6

On this day ninety-eight years ago, the 28th February 1928, AC1 Bertram Pilcher, a wireless officer on attachment with 6 Squadron Royal Air Force, died from a fractured skull after falling from a horse at Mosul the day before. His body was transported back to RAF Hinaidi and buried in the Hinaidi RAF Peace Cemetery (now known as the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery) in Plot 2 Row D Grave 9. His headstone is one of only two headstones in Plot 2 that have survived over time (out of the total of 300 British Service personnel buried at Ma'Asker) and a photograph of his headstone is attached to this post. To see the other 77 headstones that are still at Ma' Asker, complete or partial, visit the Surviving Headstones page on my website.

For more information on how the cemetery became abandoned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, visit the Ma'Asker Cemetery Maintenance Timeline page on my website, the information taken from every CWGC Annual report from 1937 to 2019.

Surviving Headstone for AC1 Bertram Pilcher at Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad