Harry George Smart

Harry George Smart, CBE, DFC, AFC, is best known as the commander of RAF Habbaniya during the first part of the AngloIraqi War. Smart was a British officer in the British Army, the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Australian Air Force, and the Royal Air Force. He served during the First World War, during the interwar period, and during the Second World War.

In 1891, Harry George Reggie Smart was born in Newmarket, Suffolk, in the United Kingdom. Smart attended Framlingham College between 1905 and 1907 and joined the British Army sometime thereafter. He served as a Sapper with the Royal Engineers.

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