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Headstone for Major Harry Pulley OBE at the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad

Old fort at Abu Ghar, 90 miles west of RAF Shaibah in southern Iraq

Vickers Vernon J7143 flying over RAF Hinaidi, Baghdad, 1923, prior to a tragic accident on the 26th July 1926 where 7 men lost their lives when the aircraft crashed on taking off from RAF Hinaidi (all were buried at the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad)

Maude Bridge, Baghdad, 1929

View of the Suez Canal from a 70 Squadron Vickers Victoria 1929

Aerial view of Amman camp, Jordan 1929

Sixty-nine years ago today, on the 5th March 1957, Senior Aircraftman Michael John Baker of the Royal Air Force, died in an accident when the lorry in which he was a passenger overturned on its way back to RAF Habbaniya. He was buried in the cemetery at Habbaniya in Plot 4 Row B Grave 6. He was only nineteen years old. May he rest in peace. Attached below is a photograph of SAC Baker's headstone as well as a wide-angle photograph of Plot 4. For more information on the burials

Off-duty Swimming at RAF Hinaidi, Baghdad, 1933

On this day ninety-three years ago, the 4th March 1933, Able Seaman William G Laurence, at that time serving on HMS Ormonde, died in the General Hospital at RAF Hinaidi from bronchial pneumonia and was buried in the Hinaidi RAF Peace Cemetery (now known as the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery) in Plot 1 Row D Grave 13. Sadly his headstone is not one of the seventy-seven headstones that have survived out of three hundred burials at the long abandoned cemetery, but here is a ph

On this day ninety years ago, the 3rd March 1936, John WQ Stack, a civilian contractor with the Royal Air Force who was previously a captain in the Hampshire Regiment, died from causes unknown and was buried in the Hinaidi RAF Peace Cemetery (now known as the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery) in Plot 2 Row B Grave 14. Sadly his headstone is not one of the seventy-seven headstones that have survived out of three hundred burials at the long abandoned cemetery, but here is a pho