Historical Information
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. The memorial was designed by Edward Warren and unveiled by Sir Gilbert Clayton on the 27th March 1929.
http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/88400/BASRA%20MEMORIAL
Inverclyde men and women listed at Basra Memorial
- John Bourhill
- Francis McCartney
- William Thomson (Hussars)
- Francis Cambell
- David McLeod
- Bernard Haughey
- John Carruthers (HLI)
- John Peebles
- Robert Rodger (HLI)
- James Copeland
- Thomas Ritchie (Seaforths)
- George Wilson
- James Devine
- Joseph Sinclair
- Archibald Graham
- Hugh Cameron Smith
- James Kirk
- Andrew Christie Stewart
- Alexander Barr
- George McBride
- William Hodgson Taylor