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Vickers Vernon J7143 flying over RAF Hinaidi, Baghdad, 1923, prior to a tragic accident on the 26th July 1926 where 7 men lost their lives when the aircraft crashed on taking off from RAF Hinaidi (all were buried at the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad)

Maude Bridge, Baghdad, 1929

View of the Suez Canal from a 70 Squadron Vickers Victoria 1929

Aerial view of Amman camp, Jordan 1929

Sixty-nine years ago today, on the 5th March 1957, Senior Aircraftman Michael John Baker of the Royal Air Force, died in an accident when the lorry in which he was a passenger overturned on its way back to RAF Habbaniya. He was buried in the cemetery at Habbaniya in Plot 4 Row B Grave 6. He was only nineteen years old. May he rest in peace. Attached below is a photograph of SAC Baker's headstone as well as a wide-angle photograph of Plot 4. For more information on the burials

Off-duty Swimming at RAF Hinaidi, Baghdad, 1933