Bakr Sidqi

Bakr Sidqi
General Bakr Sadqi in uniform
Born1890
Askar or Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
Died11 August 1937(1937-08-11) (aged 47)
Mosul, Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq
Buried
Allegiance
Branch Royal Iraqi Army
Years of service1913–1937
RankGeneral
Battles / wars

Bakr Sidqi al-Askari (Arabic: بكر صدقي العسكري; 1890 – 11 August 1937) was an Iraqi general of mixed Arab-Kurdish origin, Sidqi, the Chief of the Iraq General Staff of the nation's military, was born in 1890 and assassinated on 11 August 1937, in Mosul..