

Flying Officer Ellis Reid No 1 Squadron RAF
A recent query concerned Flying Officer Ellis Reid, a pilot who served with No 1 (Fighting) Squadron during the time the squadron was...

Steve Johnson
Jan 3
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Farewell Dinner for LXX (70) Squadron October 1934
This photograph was kindly sent me by Pauline Collins, the grand-daughter of Corporal Mark Cyril Osborne of LXX (70) Squadron, who served...

Steve Johnson
Dec 19, 2024
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Additional Burial Details at Ma'Asker Cemetery
RAF headstones in Plot 2 Row A at Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad

Steve Johnson
Dec 10, 2024
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Graves of Leonard and Phoebe Marks at Ma'Asker
Over the past few months I have had several conversations with Ron Workman and Lucille Mole (the children of Dorothy Marks, Leonard...

Steve Johnson
Nov 25, 2024
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Ma'Asker Al Raschid Cemetery - Scottish Regiment Deaths
Few people realise that nine of the graves at the Ma'Asker Al Raschid Cemetery (representing 12.5% of all British Army burials at...

Steve Johnson
Nov 14, 2024
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Death of Peter Burlton - RAF Habbaniya and RAF Hinaidi Researcher
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...

Steve Johnson
Oct 17, 2024
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