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With 150 Blog/News items as well as more than 250 pages of information on numerous topics, I have decided to add a 'Search' function to...

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

6 Squadron Hurricanes were involved in the build-up to Operation ‘Flounced’ as well as the raid itself, both in attacking ground targets...

As part of researching for my book, " Leaning on a Lamp Post ", I was required to find everything I could about life in Basingstoke,...