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Surviving Headstone for AC1 Bertram Pilcher at Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad

In memory of Flying Officer Frederick Downey, buried at the CWGC Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad

Grave of Sergeant Major John Murphy, Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad (photo 1930)

On the 26th February 1924, AC1 Charles Bruce of the RAF No 5 Armoured Car Company died and was buried at the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad

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The headstone of Mrs Joyce Hawkhead, buried at the CWGC Habbaniyah War Cemetery, Iraq

Rigging instructions for WW1 Maurice Farman Long Horn and Short Horn, FE2b, BE2c, DH1, DH2, Avro 504, Bristol Scout and FB5 Gunbus

Squadron Leader Jasper Cruikshank OBE, commanding officer of the No 6 RAF Armoured car Company, died of Typhoid on the 20th February 1925 and was buried in Plot 3, Row I, Grave 14 at the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery

In the foreground, the headstone of LAC John Prunty, wireless operator with 30 Squadron RAF, who died on the 16th February 1929 and was buried at the now abandoned CWGC military cemetery at Ma'Asker Al Raschid, Baghdad

The headstone for Captain Kenneth Harry Handley at the Habbaniya War Cemetery, Iraq