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Private James William Palmer of the Norfolk Regiment 1922

Cemetery plan for the Basra (Makina) RAF Cemetery, including the names of the seventy-one fallen, their dates of death and what service they were in at the time of their death

From October 1914 until November 1917, 6 Squadron was based in the northern sector of the Western Front, in close proximity to Ypres, but when the Battle of Cambrai was planned by the Allies, the squadron was moved south to the Somme valley. Here are two extracts from my book, Over the Western Front, explaining what happened at the Battle of Cambrai and the consequences this had for 6 Squadron.

LAC Robert Raw, who died in Iraq on the 2nd June 1935 and buried at Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad

In January 2024 I was informed by the Area Director Africa & Asia at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission that a site survey had been carried out at the Ma'Asker Cemetery, yielding enough information for the CWGC and the MoD to determine the scope and timing of the next phase of restoration. Progress after that was slow, primarily due to the difficult security situation in Baghdad where it is not considered safe for CWGC employees to gain access to the site. Twelve months l

My website is the only place you will find individual headstone photos of each of the 290 burials at the Habbaniya War Cemetery in Iraq. For this reason I am posting photos in this News/Blog section of each of the plots. This is a wide-angle view of Plot 6 as well as a diagram of the cemetery which shows the location of each Plot. The view is from the north-east corner of Plot 6 looking towards the south-west corner. For more information and to view individual grave photograp