The Habbaniya Memorial is located in Habbaniya War Cemetery, and commemorates 106 soldiers and Royal Air Force Levies who died while serving in Iraq and were buried in remote and unmaintainable graves. Habbaniya is about 65 kilometres west of Baghdad.

There are 10 Polish and 1 Norwegian Foreign National burials and a further 117 non world war burials here. Built into the wall of Habaniya War Cemetery, at the extreme end of the main avenue, is the Habbaniya Memorial to those whose graves in Iraq are so …

Habbaniya War Cemetery, enclosed by a high brick wall, is within the former R.A.F. cantonment, which is now an enclosed military area. ... The Habbaniya Memorial is located in Habbaniya War Cemetery, and commemorates 106 soldiers and Royal Air Force Levies who died while serving in Iraq and were buried in remote and unmaintainable graves.

In addition to the Graves the cemetery contains a memorial to the 107 Royal Air Force Iraq Levies who died while serving in Iraq and are buried in remote and unmaintainable graves. It takes the form of five panels of Sidon stone, on which the names are carved, surmounted an appropriate inscription and flanked on each side by the badge of the unit.

Habbaniya War Cemetery was originally the pre-war R.A.F. cemetery, but it was used during the war not only for R.A.F. casualties but for the burial of soldiers killed during the 1941 operations, and for all servicemen who died through illness or accident while serving in PAIFORCE.

This memorial commemorates 106 RAFL soldiers who perished in Iraq during the Second World War and were buried in remote and unmaintainable graves.

The Association has sponsored an RAF HABBANIYA tree at the National Memorial Arboretum. The tree is a birch tree and is situated in the RAF grove. The Arboretum is located between Lichfield and Burton on Trent in Staffordshire, England. It opened in May 2001 and will take many years to mature.

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