Ma'Asker RAF Cemetery Grave 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. For more information on the Ma'Asker cemetery visit the Ma'Asker section of Steve Buster Johnson's website.

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