Photo by Spc. Raymond Quintanilla | 305th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 11.14.2010
Honorable Alice Walpole, the British Consul General and Head of the British Embassy Office, Basra, pays tribute during a memorial service in honor of fallen Britons and others of World War I buried at Basra War Cemetery on Remembrance Sunday Nov. 14. Turkish Consul General in Basra, Honorable Ali Reza Oozjo stand alongside Walpole for a traditional ‘Silent Tribute’ for two minutes....
Photo by Spc. Raymond Quintanilla | 305th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 11.14.2010
Honorable Alice Walpole, the British Consul General and Head of the British Embassy Office in Basra, quietly stands over a tomb of a Briton who fell during World War I at Basra War Cemetery on Remembrance Sunday Nov. 14. There are also Turkish and Chinese cemeteries on the grounds....
Photo by Spc. Raymond Quintanilla | 305th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 11.11.2010
Honorable Alice Walpole, the British Consul General and Head of the British Embassy Office in Basra, and Royal Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael Jones-Thompson, the United States Division-South liaison officer for the United Kingdom, pay tribute to fallen British service members from the World War I at the Ash Shumalia War Memorial Nov. 11, Armistice Day. The wall bearing more than 40,500 names was......
Photo by Spc. Raymond Quintanilla | 305th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 11.11.2010
Honorable Alice Walpole, the British Consul General and Head of the British Embassy Office in Basra, peruses the thousands of names of fallen British service members from World War I at the Ash Shumalia War Memorial Nov. 11, Armistice Day. Britons around the world continue to pay a silent tribute to their fallen country men and women annually since 1918....
