RAWLINSON, HENRY SEYMOUR RAWLINSON, 1ST BARON (1864-1925), British soldier, was born on Feb. 20, 1864, son of Maj. Gen. Sir H. Rawlinson, Bart. He joined the army in 1884 and a year later became aide-de-camp to Sir F. Roberts in India on whose staff he served intermittently for some years. He took part in the Burma operations in 1886-87 and on the Nile in 1898; he had succeeded to the baronetcy in 1891. He served throughout the South African War (1899-1902). Some months after his return to England he became commandant of the staff college and from 1910 to May 1914 commanded the 3rd Division. Gen. Rawlinson was in charge of the forces sent to assist Antwerp in 1914, and took part in the first battles of Ypres and in the Neuve Chapelle and the Loos offensives. He commanded the IV. Army during the battle of the Somme (1916) achieving important successes. At the end of 1917 he was trans ferred temporarily to the command of the II. Army during Gen:
Plumer's absence in Italy, and in Feb. and March 1918 he acted for some weeks as British representative on the Supreme War Council. Resuming his command of the IV. Army in April, his troops on Aug. 8, in conjunction with the French, attacked the enemy near Amiens and gained a signal victory, which heralded the general advance of the Allies. After the War he was raised to the peerage as Baron Rawlinson of Trent and received a grant of £30,000. In the latter part of 1919 he was sent to north Russia to conduct the withdrawal of the Allies from Archangel and Murman, and on his return he commanded at Aldershot for a year. At the end of 1920 he went to India as commander-in chief. He died at Delhi on March 28, 1925.
See Sir F. Maurice, Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent, from his Journals and Letters (1928).