#GraveyardsofIraq The Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery contains 4,487 identified casualties from the First and Second World Wars, according to @CWGC. Begun in April 1917, the deceased here are British, Australian, Indian & Polish troops, among others.

The graveyard contains the grave of Sir Stanley Maude, who died in Baghdad of cholera in November 1917.

The graveyard has been damaged by multiple bomb blasts that shook the surrounding district of Baghdad throughout the 2000s. Some repairs have been made - note the newer, whiter graves - but the site keeper explained that not all repairs have yet been possible.

There are men here from the Arab Legion, the 10th Baluch Regiment & the 1st Punjab Regiment (in all cases where individual names are visible, I have masked them in my photos: while they’re available online, I couldn’t ask permission from families to photograph individuals).

These tightly-packed graves are those of soldiers and officers who died while marching from the city of Kut, south-east of Baghdad, which fell to the Turks after the British surrendered in 1916. Others died in prison camps in then-Anatolia.

Men also came from the North Lancashire Regiment and the Manchester Regiment to find their final resting places in Baghdad. Some graves, alongside ranks, Regiment names and death dates, some graves have personal inscriptions. One reads, “Faithful unto death.” #GraveyardsOfIraq