Notes
The Roll lists his address as Goodyers Yard. It states that he died on 23/10/1917, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private Harry William Rawlings M.M., regimental number G/3238, died aged 21 on 22/10/1917 serving in 12th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, and is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium. They record him as the son of Henry and Matilda Rawlings of 6 Kents Cottages, High Street, Highgate Village, London. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he was a native of Southwark who enlisted in Shoreditch, and that he died on 22/10/1917. The Medal Rolls record he was sent to France on 25/7/1915. The baptism on 1/11/1896 of Harry William Rawlings, son of Henry and Matilda of 11 Holland Street, was recorded in the Baptism register of All Saints' Church, Walworth, Southwark; the register was noted that he was born on 3/10/1896. His Army file records that he enlisted on 3/9/1914 and was killed in action on 22/10/1917. When his death was announced on 17/11/1917 in the Peterborough Advertiser he was reported to be the grandson of the late W R Rawlings of Goodyer's Yard, Peterborough. On the 1911 census Harry was living with his parents Henry and Matilda at 7 Reddins Road, Peckham in London; his father's place of birth was given as Peterborough).