Officers Of The Gloucestershire Regiment Commemorated On Basra Memorial To The Missing, Iraq

Basra Memorial To The Missing - Iraq
10 Officers of the Gloucestershire Regiment are commemorated on this Memorial, Panel 17
Copyright and source - Commonwealth War Graves Commission	The BASRA MEMORIAL was until 1997 located on the main quay of the naval dockyard at Maqil, on the west bank of the Shatt-al-Arab, about 8 kilometres north of Basra. Because of the sensitivity of the site, the Memorial was moved by Presidential Decree. The move, carried out by the authorities in Iraq, involved a considerable amount of manpower, transport costs and sheer engineering on their part, and the Memorial has been re-erected in its entirety. The Basra Memorial is now located 32 kilometres along the road to Nasiriyah, in the middle of what was a major battleground during the first Gulf War. The Panel Numbers quoted at the end of each entry relate to the panels dedicated to the Regiment served with. The Basra Memorial commemorates more than 40,500 members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the operations in Mesopotamia from the Autumn of 1914 to the end of August 1921 and whose graves are not known.
2Lt H P B Baines - 7th Battalion. KIA on 3rd February 1917 Capt J E T Barnes - 7th Battalion. KIA on 3rd February 1917 2Lt W D Boulton - 7th Battalion. KIA on 20th April 1916 2Lt E O Browning - 7th Battalion. KIA on 20th April 1916 2Lt F A Cross - 7th Battalion. KIA on 25th February 1917 2Lt G D Fyson - 7th Battalion. KIA on 20th April 1916 2Lt W G Harris - 7th Battalion. KIA on 3rd February 1917 Capt G B Rathbone - 7th Battalion. KIA on 21st April 1916 Capt R F Scamell - 7th Battalion. KIA on 21st April 1916 Capt C D Tresidder - 7th Battalion. KIA on 22nd April 1916

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