Ma'Asker Cemetery Grave Remembered - No 7

On this day ninety years ago, the 3rd March 1936, John WQ Stack, a civilian contractor with the Royal Air Force who was previously a captain in the Hampshire Regiment, died from causes unknown and was buried in the Hinaidi RAF Peace Cemetery (now known as the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery) in Plot 2 Row B Grave 14. Sadly his headstone is not one of the seventy-seven headstones that have survived out of three hundred burials at the long abandoned cemetery, but here is a photograph of the cemetery taken in 1930 when it was still being tended by the Imperial War Graves Commission (named changed to Commonwealth War Graves Commission in 1960).

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

Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery