Ma'Asker RAF Cemetery Grave Remembered - No 4

On this day one hundred and one years ago on the 27th February 1927, Sergeant Major John Murphy of the Royal Air Force Police force died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the military hospital in RAF Hinaidi and was buried at the cemetery there (now called the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery) in Plot 3 Row L Grave 3. Though his headstone is not one of the 77 headstones that have survived the years out of the original 300 burials at the long abandoned RAF cemetery, I have attached a photo of Plot 3 taken in 1930, not long after AC1 Murphy's burial, with his grave marked in red. RIP.

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 general information visit the Ma'Asker section .

Grave of Sergeant Major John Murphy, Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad (photo 1930)