

Help is at Hand for the Hinaidi RAF Peace Cemetery
The start of the project to restore the CWGC cemetery in Baghdad - the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, formerly known as the Hinaidi...

Steve Johnson
Aug 14, 2019


Ma' Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery (formerly known as the Hinaidi RAF Peace Cemetery)
Here is a recent satellite photo of the Hinaidi RAF Cemetery, taken earlier this year (2019). I have superimposed a box that shows the...

Steve Johnson
Aug 2, 2019


Hinaidi RAF Peace Cemetery (Ma' Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery
I have just added a five-page breakdown of the 183 RAF men so far identified as being buried at Hinaidi RAF Cemetery in Baghdad, Iraq....

Steve Johnson
Jul 22, 2019


FlyBoys Exhibition at Lijssenthoek, Belgium
The 'Flyboys' exhibition opened in the Visitor Centre at the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery on the 1st July and will be open daily until...

Steve Johnson
Jul 4, 2019


Cross & Cockade International - Book Review
Here is a copy of the review of my latest book, as it appears in the C&CI journal for Spring 2019 50.079: OVER THE WESTERN FRONT - 6 Squadron Royal Flying Corps by Steve 'Buster’ Johnson. FeedaRead.com Publishing. 276pp, 215x280mm, Softback, Illustrated. ISBN 978-1-935881-67-4 The author's grandfather served with 6 Squadron in France and Belgium from November 1915 to January 1918, His service was as an ordinary airman who specialised in working with wireless equipment. The

Steve Johnson
Apr 5, 2019


6 Squadron use of Clock Code
During WW1, RAF squadrons which supported the allied artillery adopted a clock code system to report aiming corrections to the gunnery...

Steve Johnson
Feb 27, 2019
