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Ma'Asker RAF Cemetery Grave Remembered - No 2

  • Writer: Steve Johnson
    Steve Johnson
  • 17 hours ago
  • 1 min read
Squadron Leader Jasper Cruikshank OBE, commanding officer of the No 6 RAF Armoured car Company, died of Typhoid and was buried in Plot 3, Row I, Grave 14 at the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery
Headstone for Sqn Ldr Jasper Cruikshank, Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad

Exactly one hundred and one years ago, on the 20th February 1925, Squadron Leader Jasper Cruikshank OBE, commanding officer of the No 6 RAF Armoured car Company, died of Typhoid and was buried in Plot 3, Row I, Grave 14 at the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery (formerly the Hinaidi RAF Peace Cemetery) in Baghdad, Iraq. Pictured are the remains of his headstone that exist today, out of the 300 burials at M'asker. May he rest in peace.

 
 
 

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