Page 7 of "An Introduction to Iraq" provides a brief history of 84 Squadron (one of the Royal Air Force squadrons to be based in Mesopotamia during the inter-war years). At the time of publication (August 1935) the commanding officer of 84 Squadron was Squadron Leader (later Air Chief Marshall) F J Fogarty DFC, AFC. The photograph is an aerial shot of a flight of 84 Squadron's two-seater Westland Wapiti general purpose military aircraft.