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Crash of 6 Squadron BE2d Serial 6241 March 1917

Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery Grave Utilisation

A recent query concerned Flying Officer Ellis Reid, a pilot who served with No 1 (Fighting) Squadron during the time the squadron was based at RAF Hinaidi in Iraq between April 1921 and November 1926 (at which time No 1 Squadron was disbanded). F/O Reid was with No 1 Squadron for less than two months before he was killed in a flying accident on the 12th November 1942 and buried at the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad in Plot 3 Row H Grave 5. Here is a summary of his

This photograph was kindly sent me by Pauline Collins, the grand-daughter of Corporal Mark Cyril Osborne of LXX (70) Squadron, who served...

RAF headstones in Plot 2 Row A at Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad

Over the past few months I have had several conversations with Ron Workman and Lucille Mole (the children of Dorothy Marks, Leonard Marks’ second daughter) and they have kindly provided me with family photographs and details as to the movements of the Marks family before and after the deaths of their grandfather Leonard Marks and his first-born child Phoebe, both of whom were buried in the Ma’Asker al Raschid RAF cemetery. Ron and Lucille are very keen to see the cemetery res