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1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, - Iraq

RAF Habbaniya, Iraq.  In April 1941 the 1st Battalion King's Own deployed from Karachi, India, the first strategic air move by a major British unit, to defend the air station.  The battalion took part in the Defence of Habbaniya and then defeated pro-German Iraqi forces at Falluja, thus preventing Iraq falling into the hands of the Axis powers.
Accession Number: KONeg0988

Officers of the 1st Battalion, Iraq, 1941.
Rear row, left to right: Captain M J Cook (East Yorkshire Regt), Lieutenant M G Braund (Devonshire Regt), Captain T Atkinson (Lancashire Fusiliers), Captain D E H Henning, Lieutenant S P Pitt (Lancashire Fusiliers).
Middle row, left to right: Lieutenant T H Thorp, Captain N St G Gribbon, Lieutenant R L J Pott, Captain G W B Hawkins, Lieutenant J D Leaning (East Yorkshire Regt), Captain J Helme, Lieutenant A I M Clark (Welch Regt) Lieutenant L H Glanville (Devonshire Regt) and Captain J A Addy.
Front row, left to right: Major R D Maclagan (Seaforth Highlanders), Major W V H Robins, Captain & Adjutant R H C Bryers, Lieutenant Colonel C H Kinnaird MC (Welch Regt), Major W O Walton (Green Howards), Lieutenant & Quartermaster W G Spier, and Captain D G Clayton.
The units of officers attached to the King's Own are shown in brackets.
Accession Number: KO0679/24 & KO2378/03

Sergeant Olde, of the 1st Battalion, (standing
rear left) and other soldiers in Iraq, 1941/42.
Accession Number: KO1748/01

An unusual photograph described as 'Two man tank in Trans Jordan where it was being tried out.'  Photographed in either Iraq or Syria.
Accession Number: KO1842/01