First World War graveyard found at Al Amara The Royal British Legion are welcoming news a lost graveyard has been discovered by the banks of the Tigris river. The cemetery at Al Amara, built for the dead of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force during the First World War, has been tended by keeper Hassan Hatif Moson Ali in the face of death threats from local Baath officials. It was found by the men of the Royal Irish Regiment whose forebears, the Connaught Rangers, are among the names carved into the simple granite memorial. They are honoured by an unadorned cross which...