Last week we announced the approaching end of Lord Rawlinson's
term of command in India. We regret intensely with the whole Army and the Indian Govern- ment that he had suddenly to undergo an operation and died from • the effects on March 27th. His fighting qualities were proved in Burma, Egypt and South Africa before his brain-work led to his command of the Staff College. Throughout the Great War he held high commands, at Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, Festubert and Loos. He commanded the new Fourth Army in the Somme battle in 1916 and would have conducted the flank attack from the Belgian Coast if it had ever taken place.. He became. Lord Haig's right-hand man, and when the tide turned in 1918, he took brilliant advantage of every chance to carry out the successful movements. After the Armistice he conducted the evacuation of troops from Northern Russia, and in 1920 he went to India as Commander-in-Chief. There he quickly gained the full confidence of the military and civil authorities in trying times of change, and what is perhaps most to his credit, the confidence of the Inchcape Committee, whose purpose was to cut down expenses in his own sphere. His work for Great Britain might have gone much further but for his untimely death.
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