Ma'Asker RAF Cemetery Grave Remembered - No 2

Headstone for Sqn Ldr Jasper Cruikshank, Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad

Headstone for Sqn Ldr Jasper Cruikshank, Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, c1929

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, one of only 77 that exist today, out of the 300 burials at M'asker. May he rest in peace. For more information on the Ma'Asker cemetery visit the Ma'Asker section of Steve Buster Johnson's website.