Ma'Asker RAF Cemetery Grave Remembered - No 5

Exactly ninety-four years ago today, the 27th February 1930, Flying Officer Frederick B S Downey of 55 Squadron Royal Air Force died of Typhoid Fever at the Military Hospital at RAF Hinaidi and buried at the RAF Hinaidi Cemetery (now known as the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery) in Plot 1 Row A Grave 4. Before he joined the RAF in 1927 Frederick Downey was a 2nd Lieutenant in trhe 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. Sadly, his headstone is not one of the 77 (out of 300 burials) that has survived in the long abandoned CWGC cemetery, but I have attached below a photograph of the cemetery as it was in 1930.

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 cemetery visit the Ma'Asker section.

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