View source for Rawlins Freddie Gunner 14311616

{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Rawlins Frederick "Freddie"
|Army number=14311616
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Born 1924, Lewes, Sussex.  Mother's maiden surname Carter.
|Age=21 at the time of his death.  
|Unit=Conscripted into the General Staff Corps - date not yet known.  Underwent Basic Training at a Primary Training Centre.  Initial postings probably included a Training Regiment.  Posted to the 143rd Field Regiment.  Served in Normandy and North West Europe.  Killed in action 17/4/1945.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Probably gun crew - confirmation awaited.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known, other than those injuries which caused his death.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 17/4/1945.  Initially interred in Arnhem (isolated) Holland Ginkel Farm, 40 yards East of the road from Arnhem to Ede.  Re-buried on 17/8/1945 in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery Plot 7.A.4.  Headstone inscription reads "IN MEMORY OF MY SON, NEVER FORGOTTEN, ALWAYS NEAR, WE WHO LOVED HIM SADLY MISS HIM".
|Home address=Son of George Arthur and Maria Rawlins (nee Carter) of Haywards Heath, Sussex.
|Image Name=CWGC_Headstone_Gunner_Rawlins.jpeg
|Image Title=CWGC headstone of Gunner Freddie Rawlins. 
}}


Many of the Royal Artillery personnel pages have benefited from information drawn from the 1939-1945 RA Tracer Cards made available via Ancestry.co.uk  However, the Tracer Cards of casualties appear to have been removed from the collection, so Gunner Rawlins initial postings cannot be confirmed.