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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Rawlins Freddie
|Army number=14311616
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained.
|Age=(At time of death). Not yet known.
|Unit=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=Details 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. Buried in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery Plot 7.A.4.
|Home address=No family information yet.
}}

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

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 {{personnel
-|Surname and forenames=Rawlins Freddie
+|Surname and forenames=Rawlins Frederick "Freddie"
 |Army number=14311616
 |Rank=Gunner
 |Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
-|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained.
+|Date of birth=Born 1924, Lewes, Sussex.  Mother's maiden surname Carter.
-|Age=(At time of death).  Not yet known.
+|Age=21 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Posted to the 143rd Field Regiment.  Served in Normandy and North West Europe.  Killed in action 17/4/1945.
+|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=Details awaited.
+|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.  Buried in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery Plot 7.A.4.
+|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=No family information yet.
+|Home address=Son of George Arthur and Maria Rawlins (nee Carter) of Haywards Heath, Sussex.
 }}
-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
+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.

Rawlins Freddie Gunner 14311616 - Revision history

70bgadmin at 16:11, 17 October 2023

70bgadmin: Created page with "{{personnel |Surname and forenames=Rawlins Freddie |Army number=14311616 |Rank=Gunner |Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards |Date of birth=Not yet ascertained. |Age=(A..."