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Brigadier-General Cecil Godfrey Rawling, CMG CIE DSO FRGS (16 February 1870 – 28 October 1917) was a British soldier, explorer and author whose expeditions to Tibet and Dutch New Guinea brought acclaim from the Royal Geographical Society and awards from the Dutch and Indian governments. He published two books detailing his experiences and served in the British Army on the North-West Frontier of India and in France during the First World War. It was during this latter service that he was killed in action aged 47 during the Battle of Passchendaele.

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  • Cecil Rawling (de)
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  • Brigadier-General Cecil Godfrey Rawling, CMG CIE DSO FRGS (16 February 1870 – 28 October 1917) was a British soldier, explorer and author whose expeditions to Tibet and Dutch New Guinea brought acclaim from the Royal Geographical Society and awards from the Dutch and Indian governments. He published two books detailing his experiences and served in the British Army on the North-West Frontier of India and in France during the First World War. It was during this latter service that he was killed in action aged 47 during the Battle of Passchendaele. (en)
  • Cecil Godfrey Rawling CMG, CIE, DSO (* 16. Februar 1870; † 28. Oktober 1917 nahe Passendale), war ein britischer Soldat im Range eines Brigadier und Entdecker. In den Jahren 1903/04 nahm er an dem Einmarsch britischer Truppen in Tibet unter der Leitung von Francis Younghusband teil und leitete zusammen mit C.H.D. Ryder die von Younghusband unmittelbar anschließend veranlasste Gartok-Expedition. Bei der Dritten Flandernschlacht bei Passendale im Ersten Weltkrieg kam Rawling ums Leben. (de)
  • Cecil Godfrey Rawling (Londen, 16 februari 1870 - nabij Passendale (België), 28 oktober 1917) was een Britse brigadegeneraal en ontdekkingsreiziger. In de jaren 1903-1904 nam Rawling deel aan de Britse Veldtocht in Tibet onder leiding van Francis Younghusband. Zijn team onderzocht de uitlopers van de Mount Everest en de bron (Yarlung Tsangpo) van de rivier de Brahmaputra. Rawling schreef over deze tochten The Great Plateau; Being an Account of Exploration in Central Tibet, 1903, and of the Gartock Expedition, 1904-1905 (London, 1905). (nl)
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  • Cecil Godfrey Rawling (en)
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  • Cecil Godfrey Rawling (en)
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  • Hooge Crater, Passchendaele salient, Belgium (en)
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  • London, England (en)
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