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Pontius Navigator
Thanks for that link Pontius Navigator, fascinating stuff. The OC of the Iraqi Levies providing the ground defence mentioned in the link was my Great Uncle, Lt Col John Brawn of the (then) Royal Norfolk Regiment.
Lat Christmas, my brother and I were looking through some of his old photographs, and I was struck by how many of the placenames, from his time there during the 1920s to early-40s, seem familiar from the news today. Fallujah and Basra come to mind.
And well done to the Americans for restoring the cemetary. As many here have said (and living and working in the US myself at present I'd only agree), I'd have expected nothing less from them.