Ma'Asker RAF Cemetery Remembered - No 1

Exactly ninety-seven years ago today, on the 16th February 1929, Leading Aircraftsman John Prunty who was a wireless operator with 30 Squadron Royal Air Force, died from his injuries after walking into the spinning propeller of a 30 Squadron DH9a. He was buried with full honours in Plot 3 Row N Grave 1 at the Ma'Asker RAF Cemetery, Baghdad. Though his headstone has not survived in the long-abandoned cemetery I have attached below an old photograph (c1930) of the cemetery showing John Prunty's grave in the foreground.

Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery c1930 (formerly the RAF Hinaidi Peace Cemetery), Baghdad