Ma'Asker Al Raschid Cemetery, RAF Death from Bubonic Plague in Baghdad 1922

On the 14th May 1922, Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Ernest Corkhill, who was stationed at the Royal Air Force Aircraft Depot at RAF Hinaidi in Iraq, died from Bubonic Plague in the No 23 British Stationary Hospital in Baghdad. Of the 300 burials at the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery now called the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, only 77 identifiable headstones have survived in complete or partial condition. Albert Corkhill's grave was one of the lucky ones, though only a fragment of his headstone has survived. Albert Corkhill's death is the only RAF death on record at Ma'Asker from bubonic plague.

Surviving headstone at the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery Baghdad for the grave of AC2 Albert Corkhill, RAF