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This page is in honour of the Assyrian soldiers who were killed while on duty in the service of the Iraqi Levies. If you have any similar references please email them to AINA.
 

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From “The War Dead of the Commonwealth, The Register of the names of those who fell in the 1939-1945 War and are buried in cemeteries in Iraq”, London: Compiled and published by order of the Commonwealth war graves commission 1961.  These soldiers- Royal Air Force Levies- who died while serving in Iraq and were buried in remote and unmaintainable graves.  A memorial in the Habbaniya war cemetery commemorated them.  The inscription, in English, Arabic, and Assyrian, reads:- 1939-1945 These Men gave their lives while serving with their Comrades on the Royal Air Force:

  • Aziz Hassab, Cpl. 5356, 25th March, 1940
  • Binyamin Shamisdin, Cpl. 2503, 13th, September, 1942
  • Binyamin Tooma, Pte. 1272, 22nd May 1941
  • Brikha Nanno, Pte. 4912, 29th May 1942
  • Daniel Markus, Pte. 2665, 7th July 1942
  • Dinkha Daniel, Pte. 1265, 22nd May 1941
  • Elias Khodeda, Pte. 10303, 15th September 1942
  • Elias Patros, Pte. 4577, 23rd August 1942
  • Enwia Warda, Pte. 2800, 20th July, 1942
  • Eshu Barkho, Pte.3146, 3rd May 1943
  • Eshu Gewergis, Cpl. 1026, 22nd May 1941
  • Gewergis Boyaya, Pte. 1542 3rd February 1942
  • Gewergis Mikhail, Pte. 4378,, 4th October 1943
  • Gewargis Odisho, Pte. 302 22nd May 1941
  • Gewergis Shaino, Sjt. 1771 13th April 1947
  • Gewergis Youseph, Pte. 2639 8th April 1942
  • Habib Hanna, Pte. 3829 30th March 1943
  • Hassado Goro, Pte. 10th July 1942
  • Hormis Mikhail, Pte. 2291 20th December 1944
  • Ibrahim Sulaiman, Cpl. P/809, 12th January 1943
  • Ibrahim Yousef, Pte. 7142, 6th April 1944
  • Ishaq Warda, Pte. 2232, 7th October 1944
  • Jindo Marcus, Pte. 516, 4th September 1942
  • Kanno Badal, Sjt. 3398
  • Khalil Enwia, Pte. 1934, 27th February 1945
  • Khamo Rowil, Pte., 2813 18th August, 1944
  • Khaskiel Enwia, Pte., 2813, 18th September 1941
  • Khoshaba Odisho, L. Cpt. 537, 20th February 1946
  • Kishto Hormis, Pte., 1759 2nd December 1942
  • Koriakos Yokhana, Rab Khamshi X/112, 12th November 1946
  • Markus Goriel, Pte., 4905 11th May 1942
  • Markus Odishu, Pte., 4649, 11th May 1943
  • Odisho Khail, Rab Khamshi, X/45, 24th July 1942
  • Oraham Enwia, Cpl.920, 20th February, 1944
  • Oraham Shmoil, W.O.II (C.S.M.) 2558, 13th September 1942
  • Oshana Eshu, Pte., 2273, 18th September 1941
  • Pithyou Eshu, Pte., 1321 22nd May 1941
  • Pithyou Zaia, Rab Khamshi, X/118, 28th March 1946
  • Shimun Matlob, Pte., 2094 15th March 1942
  • Sulmo Koriakos, Cpl., 3422 28th October 1944
  • Warda Oshana, Pte., 111288th May 1946
  • Yacube Pera, Pte., 178 27th September 1939
  • Yacube Pera, Pte., 758, 11th August 1940
  • Yokhana Hassado, Pte., 992 24th May 1941
  • Yokhana Paulos, Pte., 1320, 29th May 1945
  • Yokhana Pithyou, Sjt. 1006, 22nd October 1944
  • Yokhana Tallo, Sjt. 1150, 30th May 1947
  • Yokhana Tooma, Pte., 1090 7th June 1941
  • Yonan Maro, Pte., 2063, 18th December 1941
  • Zado Natan, Rab  Khamshi, X/175, 15th November 1945
  • Zaia Aziz, Pte., 3685, 25th April, 1942
  • Zaia Badel, Pte., 3466, 8th June, 1944. 
  • Zaia Elia, Pte. 2279, 24th December, 1941
  • Zaia Moshi, Sjt. 2875, 24th May, 1943
  • Saia Shlimon, W.O.II (S.C.M.), 903, 13th December 1943