Remembrance Day 2021 at Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery

For the first time in decades, a Remembrance Day service was held on-site at the Al Rasheed cemetery (first named the Hinaidi RAF Cemetery and later the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery) on the 11th November 2021, with wreaths laid by Air Marshall Martin Sampson CDE DSO (the current DSAME) and Brigadier Adam McRae MBE (British Defence Attache to Iraq) on behalf of No 1 Squadron and No 6 Squadron respectively. Wreaths for the six other Royal Air Force squadrons with men buried at Hinaidi were later laid at the Remembrance Service carried out at the British Embassy. For more details on either event, contact Steve Buster Johnson.

Wreath laying at Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad 11/11/21

Wreath laying at Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad 11/11/21