Basra Memorial

Basra Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
For First World War missing, presumed dead from the Mesopotamia campaign and have no known grave.
Unveiled	27 March 1929
Location	30°24′41.9″N 47°32′45.0″E / 30.411639°N 47.545833°E / 30.411639; 47.545833 38R QU 44571 67122 near  Zubayr, Iraq
Designed by	Edward Prioleau Warren
Commemorated	40682
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF THESE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO FELL IN THE IRAQ CAMPAIGN IN THE YEARS 1914–1921 AND WHOSE GRAVES ARE NOT KNOWN
Statistics source: Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

The Basra Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial near Zubayr, Iraq. The memorial commemorates 40,682 Commonwealth forces (99% Indians) members who died during the Mesopotamian Campaign, from the Autumn of 1914 to the end of August 1921, and whose graves are not known. The memorial was designed by Edward Prioleau Warren. It was unveiled by Gilbert Clayton on 27 March 1929.^[1] Originally located eight kilometres north of Basra, near the Shatt al-Arab River, it was moved southwest in 1997 to a battleground from the much more recent Gulf War.