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Few people realise that nine of the graves at the Ma'Asker Al Raschid Cemetery (representing 12.5% of all British Army burials at Ma’Asker) are for men who were serving with Scottish Regiments at the time of their death, with eight men serving with the 2nd Brigade of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and one man serving with the City of Glasgow Regiment, in 1929 called the Highland Light Infantry. Though only 71 of the original 300 headstones remain in an identifiable conditi

Peter Arthur Burlton - Head Researcher RAF Habbaniya Association It is with great regret that I have to report the death of Peter Burlton, who for many years was the head historian of the now disbanded RAF Habbaniya Association. In his capacity as a military researcher, Peter spent countless hours at the Public Records Office in Kew and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission headquarters researching the history of the various Royal Air Force bases in Iraq, most notably RAF Ha

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I received a query regarding the age of the Memorial at the Habbaniya War Cemetery in Iraq, erected in honour of the 106 men of the RAF...

On the morning of the 17th April 1957, a Royal Air Force transport Vickers Valetta of 114 Squadron (Serial No: VW832) took off from Aqaba.

A recent query required me to identify the servicemen who were buried at the RAF Cemetery in Baghdad 'between the two World Wars'. The cemetery, now called the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery but originally named the RAF Hinaidi Peace Cemetery, is the final resting place of three hundred airmen, soldiers and seamen of the British forces including a number of civilians working for the Royal Air Force, who died in the service of their country in the nineteen-twenties and nine