Amara War Cemetery Memorial Panels - New Photos
New Photos of the Amara War Cemetery Memorial in Iraq - Panel 12 for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Steve Johnson
4 days ago
CWGC Digital Basra Memorial - Useful Hint No 1
CWGC Digital Basra Memorial for Dorset Regiment deaths in Mesopotamia and Turkey
Steve Johnson
Jun 3
CWGC Digital Basra Memorial - Missing Names on Physical Panel at Basra
With the aid of the new Digital Basra Memorial recently introduced by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on its website, I have been able to identify the missing names on Panel No 41 at the actual Basra Memorial in Iraq.
Steve Johnson
May 27
The Heroic Mission of Flight Lieutenant Sir Roderic MacRobert: A Tribute to 94 Squadron RAF
Long Range Hurricane Mk I Serial Z4544 of 261 Squadron at Luqa, Malta in January 1941 - similar to Hurricane flown by Flt Lt Roderic MacRobert on his last mission with 94 Squadron where he lost his life.
Steve Johnson
May 20
Steve Buster Johnson's British Cemeteries in Iraq Research
6 Squadron Graves marked at Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad - cemetery plan overlaid on satellite image of cemetery. Note the new cemetery wall finished in October 2021
Steve Johnson
May 19
Ma'Asker Al Raschid Cemetery, Death of a WW1 Ace in 1926
The remains of the headstone for Flt Lt Reginald Brading, Station Commandant at RAF Basrah who died in a flying accident at RAF Hinaidi in Baghdad on the 26th Julky 1926 and was buried at the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery (formerly the Hinaidi RAF Peace Cemetery).
Steve Johnson
May 17