Rawlinson Harry Raymond 2/Lt

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Surname: Rawlinson;

Forename(s): Harry Raymond;

Initials: HR;

Rank: 2/Lt;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 118 Coy;

How killed: KIA;

Where: Belgium;

When killed: 26-Sep-1917;

Other Data: Portrait: Lloyds Bank Memorial Album, p51
War Diary 118 Coy - killed outright by a shell which landed in close proximity to his gun….."a very keen and able officer and well liked in the Company with which he had been about 7 weeks…………"
From De Aston School, Market Rasen:
Second Lieutenant, 118th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) who was killed in action on Wednesday 26 September 1917. Aged 23. Son of Alfred and Emma Rawlinson, of Market Place, Market Rasen, Lincs. A Bank Clerk at Dudley, enlisted September 1914. Buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot VIA. Row G. Grave 3. School Admissions Book:“Rawlinson Raymond Harry, born 29 October 1893, admitted Jan 18 1906, son of Alfred Rawlinson, Grocer, of Market Rasen, left Christmas 1910, killed War 1917”De Astonian Magazine Obituary of Christmas 1917“Second-Lieut. H. Raymond Rawlinson, whose death we much regret to report, entered De Aston in January 1906, remaining at School five years, when he left to take up a position in a bank.Lieut Rawlinson was on the staff at Lloyd’s Bank in Birmingham when war broke out, and on September 21st, 1914, he joined the 7th Worcesters. He underwent training at Kidderminster, Maldon and Brentwood. In October, 1915, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant, and went to Bisley for a machine-gun course.From there he went to Sidworth in the M.G.C. attached to the 7th Worcesters, and was drafted to France in March, 1916, returning to England the following November to take up a commission, He underwent the necessary training at Bisley and on April 26th this year was gazetted and sent to Clipstone, where lie remained until August and when he returned to active service and was killed in action on. 26th September.From Lieut. Rawlinson’s orderly, Mrs. Rawlinson received the following letter, dated 27th September “Dear Mrs. Rawlinson - Ere this arrives you will no doubt have received news of your dear son’s death. Being his servant I was much in contact with him. I feel it my duty to let you know he will be greatly missed by all those that knew him. He died a soldier’s death right in the battle front. It must be some satisfaction to you to know that he died doing his duty nobly, and that death was almost instantaneous. If it is not asking too much, I would like a small photograph of him.” See also Market Rasen St Thomas Memorial;

Other Notes: RAWLINSON, Second Lieutenant, HARRY RAYMOND, 1/8th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). Killed in action at the Battle of Ypres 26th September 1917. Age 23. Son of Alfred and Emma Rawlinson, of Market Place, Market Rasen, Lincs. Bank Clerk at Dudley. Enlisted Sept., 1914 VIA. G. 3. Hooge Crater Cemetery - Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium;

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