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RAF BOMBING RAIDS AGAINST FLOCKS OF GRAZING SHEEP [ 8 January 1925 ] On 8 January 1925, RAF headquarters in Baghdad, ordered No 30 Squadron RAF to bomb and machine gun the grazing sheep flocks of the nomadic Jaff who inhabited the Kurdish areas of Iraq and Iran. Please feel welcome to post comments below. …

AT LEAST ONE THOUSAND SLAUGHTERED AS BRITISH TROOPS SACK DELHI. [ 20 September 1857 ] On this day in 1857, after six days of fierce street fighting, British troops under General Sir Archdale Wilson finally obtained the surrender of the remaining pockets of Indian Mutineers still holding out in the city.  However they remained determined…

FA CHIEF APOLOGISES TO THE NAZIS AND TOASTS HITLER On Wednesday 4th December 1935, the visiting German national football team had been invited to an after the match dinner reception at the Hotel Victoria in London. William Pickford, the vice president of the Football Association and the man who first introduced markings on football pitches…

BRITISH TROOPS MURDER 24 UNARMED CIVILIANS 12 December 1948 – British troops executed 24 unarmed men, after separating them from the women and children at a Malayan rubber plantation at Sungai Rimoh near the small town of Batang Kali. The men had been subjected to mock executions before being herded into a hut where they were…