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CARNOY WAR CEMETERY, FRANCE
about five miles east of Albert

NOTES
A colleague Mr. Graham Sacker of Cheltenham spotted this Rawes memorial in a peaceful and attractive little cemetery in northern France. He was one of the 50,000 casulties sustained on the 1st July 1916, the opening day of the battle of the Somme. (Russell Line)

War Commission headstone.

LIEUTENANT
J.H.R. RAWES
BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT
1ST JULY 1916

Copied by Julian Rawes.

NOTES
Item relating to the life and death of Joscelyn Hugh Russell Rawes. (Russell Line)

Portrait and memorial.

JOSCELYN HUGH RUSSELL RAWES
Lt Joscelyn Hugh Russell Rawes, killed in action 1st July 1916, aged 20. Joscelyn was educated at the Grammar School in Bury St. Edmunds and Perso School of Cambridge, where was Captain of the Rugby Team, Head Boy between 1913 and 1914 as well as being the Color Sergeant in the O.T.C. He won an exhibition at St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge and had just left school when war was declared. He enlisted in September 1914, becoming an Officer and went to France with the 7th Battallion July 1915. Lt Rawes was in the very front wave of the assault, lead D Company out into no-man’s land and left the trenches at 7.28am, Immediately coming under machine gun fire and falling before the men arrived at the first line of German trenches. He was recovered and buried in the Carnoy Military Cemetery. He was the youngest son of Reverend and Mrs F. Russell Rawes from Cambridge and his brother served in the South African Wars of 1899-1902 and flew in the R.F.C. during the Great War.
Copied from the Internet 2009 by Julian Rawes.

	NOTES A colleague Mr. Graham Sacker of Cheltenham spotted this Rawes memorial in a peaceful and attractive little cemetery in northern France. He was one of the 50,000 casulties sustained on the 1st July 1916, the opening day of the battle of the Somme. (Russell Line)
	War Commission headstone. LIEUTENANT J.H.R. RAWES BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT 1ST JULY 1916 Copied by Julian Rawes.
	NOTES Item relating to the life and death of Joscelyn Hugh Russell Rawes. (Russell Line)
	Portrait and memorial. JOSCELYN HUGH RUSSELL RAWES Lt Joscelyn Hugh Russell Rawes, killed in action 1st July 1916, aged 20. Joscelyn was educated at the Grammar School in Bury St. Edmunds and Perso School of Cambridge, where was Captain of the Rugby Team, Head Boy between 1913 and 1914 as well as being the Color Sergeant in the O.T.C. He won an exhibition at St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge and had just left school when war was declared. He enlisted in September 1914, becoming an Officer and went to France with the 7th Battallion July 1915. Lt Rawes was in the very front wave of the assault, lead D Company out into no-man’s land and left the trenches at 7.28am, Immediately coming under machine gun fire and falling before the men arrived at the first line of German trenches. He was recovered and buried in the Carnoy Military Cemetery. He was the youngest son of Reverend and Mrs F. Russell Rawes from Cambridge and his brother served in the South African Wars of 1899-1902 and flew in the R.F.C. during the Great War. Copied from the Internet 2009 by Julian Rawes.