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Gen. Lord Rawlinson of Trent
GENERAL HENRY SEYMOUR RAWLINSON, 1st Baron Rawlinson, GCB, GCSI, GCVO, KCMG (20 February 1864 - 28 March 1925), known as Sir Henry Rawlinson, 2nd Baronet from 1895-1919, was a British WWI general b...view moreGENERAL HENRY SEYMOUR RAWLINSON, 1st Baron Rawlinson, GCB, GCSI, GCVO, KCMG (20 February 1864 - 28 March 1925), known as Sir Henry Rawlinson, 2nd Baronet from 1895-1919, was a British WWI general best known for his roles in the Battle of the Somme of 1916 and the Battle of Amiens in 1918.
Born in Westminster, London he attended Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and entered the Army as a lieutenant in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in India in 1884. His first military experience was serving in Burma during an 1886 uprising.
Returning to Britain in 1889, he served in several battles and the Second Boer War from 1899-1902 and rose through the ranks to lieutenant-general in 1916, when he assumed command of the New Fourth Army as the planned Allied offensive on the Somme. He was promoted to permanent General in 1917 and appointed British Permanent Military Representative to the inter-Allied Supreme War Council at Versailles in 1918.
He was raised to the peerage as Baron Rawlinson of Trent in the County of Dorset in 1919.
In 1920 he was made Commander-in-Chief, India, a post he held until his death in Delhi in 1925.
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR FREDERICK BARTON MAURICE, 1st Baronet GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO (19 January 1871 - 19 May 1951) was a senior British Army officer, military correspondent, writer and academic. Posted to France on the outbreak of WWI, he saw action at the Battle of Mons. In 1915 he was posted to London as Director of Military Operations for the Imperial General Staff and was promoted to major-general in 1916. He retired in 1918 and founded the British Legion in 1920, serving as its president from 1932-1947. He died in 1951 aged 86.
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Books by Gen. Lord Rawlinson of Trent
Soldier, Artist, Sportsman: The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent