Rare Photo of Ruined Fort at Abu Ghar, Southern Iraq, c1929
Old fort at Abu Ghar, 90 miles west of RAF Shaibah in southern Iraq
Steve Johnson
Mar 8
Vickers Vernon J7143 Fatal Crash at RAF Hinaidi 1926
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)
Steve Johnson
Mar 7
Maude Bridge, Baghdad 1929
Maude Bridge, Baghdad, 1929
Steve Johnson
Mar 7
70 Squadron RAF Victoria View of Suez Canal 1929
View of the Suez Canal from a 70 Squadron Vickers Victoria 1929
Steve Johnson
Mar 6
Aerial View of Amman, Jordan c1929
Aerial view of Amman camp, Jordan 1929
Steve Johnson
Mar 6
Habbaniya War Cemetery Grave Remembered - No 3
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 marking his Habbaniya War Cemetery grave as well as a wide-angle photograph of Pl
Steve Johnson
Mar 5