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In reviewing the hundreds of photographs taken at the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery over the past 3+ years (the first batch being...

My latest book, Rising from the Flanders Mud, has been published (August 2023) and is available for purchase from any of the major...

Funeral procession of Brigadier General Sir Gilbert Clayton (Sep 1929) at the Hinaidi RAF Peace Cemetery Baghdad

Thanks to the assistance of fellow researcher Paul McMillan, I have been able to find sufficient evidence to prove that the 'vacant' grave in Plot 3 Row G Grave 2 was in fact the final resting place of AC1 John Maxton Ramsay, who died in the RAF Hospital at Hinaidi on the 17th July 1924 from enteric fever, perforated intestine and general peritonitis, aged 22. At the time he was serving with No 6 Armoured Car Company, based at RAF Hinaidi. Before the Commonwealth War Graves C

The latest satellite imagery on Google Earth clearly shows the new wall built around the western half of the Hinaidi RAF Peace Cemetery...

This morning I was contacted by yet another descendent (10 as at the 18th January 2023) of a man who had died in service ‘between the...