Casualty Information
Private
ALFRED DENIS
RAWLINS
Service Number
Age
Date of death
5734532
19
Tuesday, 04 July 1944
Company:
Unknown
Son of Alfred Henry and Constance Helen Rawlins, of Weeford, Staffordshire.
War Service details:
Original Regiment joined- (Based on their Service No).
The Dorsetshire Regiment
1st Bttn KOSB location on day of death (According to War Diary)
Cambes
Extract from War Diary on date of death:
Enemy shelled Bn area in the afternoon, followed by spasmodic mortar fire in "B" Coy area causing one casualty.
The rain continued in showers and after several days had made ground conditions bad.
"C" Coy sent out raid to GALMANCHE. Party A was successful and overran an enemy platoon or section posn.
Lieut Raines the officer commanding this party was killed. The party was rallied and brought back very ably by Cpl Cameron. No prisoners taken as enemy ran away but several enemy casualties claimed.
Party B ran into what was at first thought to be a minefield, and withdrew. Later it was thought that this was some form of warning device as the explosion on trip wires caused no casualties but MGs all along the GALMANCHE defences opened up
In a letter to the parents, the KOSB padre wrote, "We have laid him to rest in the garden of an old French house; the grave has been marked with a cross."
From The Mercury, Friday, August 4th, 1944
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In Memorium
Memorial
LA DELIVRANDE WAR CEMETERY, DOUVRES
VII. L. 5.
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