Rasheed RAF Cemetery - Armoured Car and Attached to RAF Levies Deaths
A recent query required me to identify the servicemen who were buried at the RAF Cemetery in Baghdad 'between the two World Wars'. The cemetery, now called the Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery but originally named the RAF Hinaidi Peace Cemetery, is the final resting place of three hundred airmen, soldiers and seamen of the British forces including a number of civilians working for the Royal Air Force, who died in the service of their country in the nineteen-twenties and nineteen-thirties. The attached diagram may be of interest to others. In summary, 15 officers and NCOs of the British Army who were attached to the RAF Iraq Levies, died between December 1921 and January 1931 in Iraq and were buried at Ma'Asker (short name "Rasheed"). Out of the 300 burials, 24 men of the six RAF Armoured Car Companies and HQ died between June 1922 and May 1935 and were buried at Ma'Asker. For more details see also the page on this website that provides a breakdown of burials by service type (including those of the Armoured Car Companies and those attached to the RAF Iraq Levies.
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