LANCE CORPORAL BERTRAM LLOYD RAWLINS
THE KING'S LIVERPOOL REGIMENT
15TH MARCH 1915 AGE 30
BURIED: RAMPARTS CEMETERY, LILLE GATE, YPRES, BELGIUM
"In the early morning of 15 March Lance-Corporal B.L. Rawlins, this very capable N.C.O. in charge of the Battalion Engineering Section, was out in front of the trenches on the right of the sector putting out barbed wire. At this point the enemy's trenches were only about 80 yards away and he was seen and mortally wounded by a sniper. Captain Ronald Dickinson, O.C."X" Company, in front of whose trench Rawlins was lying, wished to go out himself to bring him in but was forcibly held back by his men, who would not allow him to take the risk. Four men, Lance-Corporal A.G. Davidson, Privates W.W. Howarth and J.L. Wallace of "X" Company and Private S.G. Gibson of the Engineering Section, at once went out and under heavy fire brought Rawlins in."
The Liverpool Scottish
A.M. McGilchrist