Basra Memorial, Military memorial in Az Zubayr, Iraq.

The Basra Memorial stands about 32 km from Basra on the road to Nasiriyah, in desert ground that was a Gulf War battlefield. It is built of reddish sandstone: a 75-metre colonnade with two 14-metre side colonnades, ten low domed towers, and a central hexagonal projection facing a stone obelisk inscribed "1914-1921". The names of the missing are cut into 69 panels fixed to the colonnade walls.

The Basra Memorial was designed by Edward Prioleau Warren and unveiled by Gilbert Clayton on 27 March 1929, commemorating 40,682 Commonwealth dead of the Mesopotamian Campaign, autumn 1914 to August 1921, whose graves are unknown. It first stood 8 km north of Basra on the west bank of the Shatt al-Arab at the Maqil naval base. In 1997 Iraqi authorities dismantled and rebuilt it about 32 km from Basra, beside the Basra–Nasiriyah road, on ground that was a Gulf War battlefield.

Of the 40,682 commemorated, only 7,385 British personnel and Indian officers are named on the panels; the 33,256 Indian NCOs and other ranks appear only by regiment, as in "and 258 other Indian soldiers". In 2016 CWGC publicity director Colin Kerr said the commission knew their identities and planned to publicise them in India and Britain; by August 2025 this had not been done.

The memorial stands about 32 km from Basra on the desert road toward Nasiriyah, in the area of a Gulf War battlefield, not at its original Shatt al-Arab riverside site. The CWGC stopped maintaining it in the early 2000s, so expect debris from nearby gravel and sand pits and a concrete barrier along the edge. Around 62 of the 68 panels remain readable; all were photographed and are viewable online.

Five Victoria Cross recipients are named on the panels, among them Charles Henry Cowley and Humphrey Osbaldston Brooke Firman, both honoured for the Tigris operations near Kut al-Amara on 24–25 April 1916 and listed on Panel 1. George Stuart Henderson, on Panel 31, died in 1920, after the campaign's fighting had ended.