Baghdad Hinaidi RAF Cemetery (now Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery)/Database of burials from 1921

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Baghdad Hinaidi RAF Cemetery (now Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery)

 

https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/4007256/MA%27ASKER%20AL%20RASCHID%20R.A.F.%20CEMETERY/

Ma'asker Al Raschid R.A.F. Cemetery  (cwgc.org)

The cemetery is located a few kilometres to the east of Baghdad city in the Zafaraniyah district.

 

The following website was mentioned on WW2Talk

https://www.stevebusterjohnson.com

This website contains a section on 299 service personnel and civilians buried at Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery (formerly known as the Hinaidi RAF Peace Cemetery) from 1921 to 1937

 

196 of the 299 graves are for Royal Air Force casualties from eight RAF squadrons (1, 6, 8, 30, 45, 55, 70 and 84) as well as a variety of other RAF Units.

Apart from Royal Air Force graves, there are 71 graves for British Army personnel (representing more than 20 Regiments, the RA/RFA and several other British Army entities such as the Royal Signals and Army Services Corps) and 2 for Royal Navy men, a Chief Petty Officer from HMS Hastings and an Able Seaman from HMS Ormonde. 

 

There are also 29 graves for British civilian RAF contractors (24 men and 5 women) who were employed in various capacities in Baghdad and 1 grave for an 8-month-old baby girl, Phoebe Marks. 

 

At least two graves were relocated from Mosul.

 

The following page 

https://www.stevebusterjohnson.com/book-reviews lists various sections of the website relating to  the cemetery and its burials

 

Includes 

Burials at Hinaidi RAF Cemetery (Searchable Database of 299 Graves)

https://www.stevebusterjohnson.com/raf-hinaidi-burials-database

 

Cheers

Maureen

 

 

gave me access to his research notes as well as 'on the ground' details provided by the British Embassy in Baghdad, coupled with hundreds of hours of my own research using (the sources of information including the RAF casualty cards, Aircraft history, London Gazette and Flight magazine to name but a few),  I have been able to compile a service profile for most of the 196 RAF burials as well as basic details for the other 103 Army, Navy and civilian burials. 

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