Grave General Lord Henry Rawlinson

General Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, GCB, GCSI, GCVO, KCMG. 20 Feb 1864-28 Mar 1925. Joined the British Army in 1884 as a lieutenant in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. He served in the Mahdist War, Second Boer War , First World War and North Russian Intervention. At the outbreak of WW1, General Rawlinson was appointed to command the 4th Division of the British Expeditionary Force in France and fought at Antwerp and Ypres. One of Rawlinson's [doctrines was the 'Bite and Hold' method- to capture a piece of enemy line and hold it against counterattacks. In January 1916 he was appointed to command the 4th Army which was the major force in the Battle of the Somme. In 1918 he was appointed to command the 5th Army and comprised four Canadian, five Australian, five British and Two American Divisions and led the counterattack against the German forces after Operation Michael eventually breaking through the Hindenburg Line in September 1918.
After WW1 he was involved in the evacuation of Allied Forces from the unsuccessful mission to intervene in the Russian Civil War. He was appointed Commander in Chief of the Imperial General Staff and was Britain's Permanent representative at the Treaty Of Versailles.
In 1920 he was appointed to command the Indian Army where he served until his death in Delhi on 28th march 1928. His body was transported back to Britain with full military honour's and interred in the NorthTransept of St Andrews Church, Trent, the village of his birth.



Window: "Henry Seymour, General, Lord Rawlinson, 1st Baron G.C.B., G.C.S.I., K.C.M.G., G.C.V.O. Died 28th Mar 1925"

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• Text: Sharky Ward
• Photos: Anthony (Sharky) Ward (1, 2, 3, 4), John Warwick Brooke (5)