Personal Number: 219069 Rank: Second Lieutenant Name: Edward Ernest RAWLENCE Unit: Irish Guards London Gazette : 19 December 1941 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35385/supplement/7169/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts. 29th November 1941:- I. G'ds. Edward Ernest RAWLENCE (219069). London Gazette : 22 March 1945 https://macleanhistory.org/resource...0-sup36994-p1557_chfm-gallant-service-ww2.pdf Mentioned in Despatches Capt. (actg.) E. E. Rawlence (219069).
PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: RAWLENCE, Edward Ernest DOB: 1922, 2nd Quarter Place of Birth: Wilton, Wiltshire Residence: Wiltshire, England Profession: Forestry Commission, Camberley Parents: George Norman and Sarah Margaret Fitzgerald Rawlence nee Law, of Bemerton, Salisbury. Photo: SERVICE Army/Personal Number: 219069 Rank: Captain Regiment/Battalion: Irish Guards, 3rd Battalion As at 01/09/1939: OFFICER Commission: London Gazette https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35385/supplement/7169/data.pdf The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts. 29th Nov. 1941:— FOOT GUARDS I. G'ds. Edward Ernest RAWLENCE (219069). Promotions: Field Returns: Orbats: CASUALTY CWGC Link: Casualty Details CWGC Certificate: Theatre of War: Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45 Date of Death: 11/09/1944 Age at Death: 22 Casualty Type: Killed in Action Cemetery: LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY Cemetery Plan: Cemetery Photo: Grave Reference: I. D. 6. Headstone Photo: Grave Registration: Grave Concentration: Headstone: Reburial Date: 22/02/1946 Original Burial Place / Map Reference: Kommel Belgium GSGS 2541, 1/100,000, Sheet 5, 351955, by house in S.W. corner of Xrds. Inscription: "I shall be satisfied, When I awake, With Thy likeness." Army Casualty List (WO 417): 219069 Captain (Acting) RAWLENCE E E 1944 Irish Guards 219069 Captain (Acting) RAWLENCE E E 1944-45 Irish Guards The Times Casualty List: published 22 September 1944 published 27 February 1945 MEDALS Gallantry Award: Mentioned in Despatches Theatre of Combat or Operation: London Gazette: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36994/supplement/1557/data.pdf 22 MARCH 1945 War Office, 22nd March, 1945. The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe:— I. G'ds. Capt. (actg.) E. E. Rawlence (219069). Campaign Medals: REFERENCES War Diaries: War Diary: 3rd Battalion IRISH GUARDS, Oct - Dec 1941 War Diary: 3rd Battalion IRISH GUARDS, Jan - Dec 1942 Irish Guards, 3rd Battalion, 1943 Jan - Dec | WW2Talk War Diary: 3rd Battalion IRISH GUARDS, Jan - Dec 1944 Archive Files: WO 417 Publications: IG History - page 442, Sourdeval "The remnants of No. 2 and No. 4 Companies were amalgamated into one company called No. 2, and were commanded for the day by Lieutenant Edward RAWLENCE, normally the Transport Officer, but now the only available officer." page 451, The Liberation of Brussels " Captain E. RAWLENCE, the 3rd Battalion Transport Officer, had a terrible day racing up and down the column in a jeep, keeping it closed up, repairing breakdowns and changing trailers from one overloaded truck to another." page 479, The Escaut Canal "Meanwhile, Captain E.E. RAWLENCE, the 3rd Battalion M.T. Officer, was lying semi-conscious in an ambulance. He was still concussed from a collision on a motor-cycle the day before, but the noise of the firing brought him from his stretcher. He borrowed a Piat and, without telling anybody, started out to stalk the self-propelled gun. He did not come back. A bullet or a splinter must have hit the Piat bomb he was carrying, for he was killed instantly. The German attack petered out to a failure and they withdrew to De Luyken, where they were later caught by a Grenadier column working up from the south." Accounts: War Memorial: Page 193 - Wellington-Roll-of-Honour-1939-19145 "Captain EDWARD ERNEST RAWLENCE, Irish Guards, who came to Wellington in 1935 was Head of the Lynedoch before he left in 1940, a quiet but efficient Head. He worked in the Y.M.C.A. when he left Wellington and was with the Forestry Commission at Camberley until he joined up at the Guards Depot, Caterham, in June, 1941. He went on to Sandhurst and was commissioned in the Irish Guards that December. Until D-Day Rawlence had fought his way into Belgium, where he fell fighting on the Scheldt Canal on September 11th, 1944. He was mentioned posthumously in dispatches." Newspaper: The Times 22nd September 1944 Websites: Irish Guards: Roll of Honour - WWII Open Resource Group Irish Guards: Gallantry Awards & Honours - WWII Open Resource Group Captain Edward Ernest Rawlence ( - 1944) - Find A Grave Memorial LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY, BELGIUM
Casualty Captain RAWLENCE, EDWARD ERNEST Service Number 219069 Died 11/09/1944 Aged 22 3rd Bn. Irish Guards Son of George Norman and Sarah Margaret Fitzgerald Rawlence, of Bemerton, Salisbury. INSCRIPTION: I SHALL BE SATISFIED, WHEN I AWAKE, WITH THY LIKENESS Buried at LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY Location: Limburg (Belgium), Belgium Cemetery/memorial reference: I. D. 6. See cemetery plan Irish Guards: Roll of Honour - WWII Open Resource Group Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945 Name: Edward Rawlence Given Initials: E E Rank: Captain Death Date: 11 Sep 1944 Number: 219069 Birth Place: Wiltshire Residence: Wiltshire Branch at Enlistment: Foot Guards Theatre of War: Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45 Regiment at Death: Irish Guards Branch at Death: Foot Guards
I am very proud that I could find relatives of cap. Rawlence so I could give him a good commemoration in my latest book.