Ma'Asker RAF Cemetery Grave Remembered - No 3

Exactly one hundred and two years ago today, on the 26th February 1924, AC1 Charles Bruce of the RAF 5th Armoured Car Company died at Mosul. His body was initially buried at Mosul but was later exhumed and returned to RAF Hinaidi where he was buried in the RAF Cemetery there - now called the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery - in Plot 2 Row C Grave 14. Sadly his headstone is not one of the 77 headstones (of the total 300 burials) that have survived over the years at the long abandoned CWGC cemetery but I have attached to this post a photograph of the cemetery in its better years.

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 details on the cemetery, visit the Ma'Asker section of Steve Buster Johnson's website.

Plot 3 of the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad, c1930