Background
Rawlins was the son of Major-General James Sebastian Rawlins, a senior officer of the Indian Staff Corps, and Emma Augusta Wilmot Parke.
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Arthur Rawlins
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Born in Dharamsala, India, he was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Career
He was commissioned into the East Surrey Regiment on 21 December 1889, but soon transferred to the Indian Staff Corps where he was under his father"s command. Rawlins fought in the North-West Frontier between 1897 and 1903, notably being involved in the Tirah Campaign with the 11th Regiment of Punjab Infantry, later the 24th Punjabis. He was deployed in the Somaliland Campaign between 1903 and 1904 and gained the rank of Major on 21 December 1907.
During the First World War his regiment served in Egypt and then in Mesopotamia, where it fought the Battles of Shaiba, Ctesiphon and the Siege of Kut al Amara in 1915, where it was captured by the Turks.
Rawlins was Mentioned in Dispatches during the action. The 24th Punjabis returned to Mesopotamia in April 1917, after reforming, and fought in the Battle of Khan Baghdadi.
Rawlins later served in Salonika and the Russian Transcaucasia, being promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and taking command of the regiment. Following his retirement from the Army, Rawlins moved to England and lived at Weston-super-Mare, where he was a Justice of the Peace.
Rawlins was the great-uncle of Kenneth Spring.
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British Indian