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Present day and 1916 aerial photos of the RAF Abeele aerodrome in Belgium

I had a query regarding the location of 4 Squadron Royal Air Force during the German Spring Offensive in 1918 and determined that the...

The Siege of Habbaniya 1941 as well as the death of Sergeant Harold Brattan (RAF) whilst on a bombing raid

I have just completed (3rd February 2024) interactive diagrams of the Habbaniya War Cemetery and Ma'asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery which have links to all 290 headstones at Habbaniya and the 71 headstones at Ma'asker (all that remain from the original 300 graves). New headstones were erected at Habbaniya during the restoration of the cemetery in 2018/19 but the headstones at Ma'asker are old and the condition of the headstones range from complete to fragments. I have attached

Grave location of First Officer Oskar Kristiansen of the Norwegian Navy

The full extent of the tragic story of the Marks family only became known recently when Ron Workman (the grandson of Leonard Marks) sent me photos of Leonard Marks’ funeral and headstone. In the late nineteen-twenties Leonard Marks was a civilian electrician working for the Royal Air Force in the Works & Building Depot at RAF Hinaidi, Baghdad. At that time RAF Hinaidi was the centre of operations for all British Forces (Army, Navy and Air Force) in Mesopotamia, present day Ir