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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...

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....