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Rawling, Cecil Godfrey
1.3.0 2026-08-10 Rawling, Cecil Godfrey Rådata 3248478 name Statens museer för världskultur - Etnografiska museet SMVK-EM Namn http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/3248478 - id - Cecil Godfrey Rawling, född 1870, död 1917, engelsk soldat och upptäcktsresande. 1870-02-16, 1917-10-28, 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 Geographic 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. 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 Geographic 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. A man of adventure in the Victorian mould, he was said to possess 'true courage, modesty and kindness of heart'[1] whether in the snows of Tibet, the jungles of New Guinea or the muddy trenches of Flanders. His death was widely lamented in the scientific and geographic fields and was covered in The Times, where a friend described 'his patient courage, his resourcefulness and constant cheerfulness' and described how he possessed the 'eternal boyishness of the Elizabethans' in his exploration A man of adventure in the Victorian mould, he was said to possess 'true courage, modesty and kindness of heart'[1] whether in the snows of Tibet, the jungles of New Guinea or the muddy trenches of Flanders. His death was widely lamented in the scientific and geographic fields and was covered in The Times, where a friend described 'his patient courage, his resourcefulness and constant cheerfulness' and described how he possessed the 'eternal boyishness of the Elizabethans' in his exploration. (wikipedia 2013-06-05) image/jpeg https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/image/tn/3259592/Rawling%2C+Cecil+Godfrey.jpg https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/image/zoom/3259591/Rawling%2C+Cecil+Godfrey.jpg http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by-nc-nd Uppgift om fotograf saknas Statens museer för världskultur http://viaf.org/viaf/6785638 https://kulturnav.org/6aa53a1e-e08e-4b1d-a473-3d889cba36be http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1052339 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rawling http://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/2194355 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/html/3248478 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/xml/3248478 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/rdf/3248478
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Cecil Godfrey Rawling, född 1870, död 1917, engelsk soldat och upptäcktsresande.
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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 Geographic 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. 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 Geographic 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. A man of adventure in the Victorian mould, he was said to possess 'true courage, modesty and kindness of heart'[1] whether in the snows of Tibet, the jungles of New Guinea or the muddy trenches of Flanders. His death was widely lamented in the scientific and geographic fields and was covered in The Times, where a friend described 'his patient courage, his resourcefulness and constant cheerfulness' and described how he possessed the 'eternal boyishness of the Elizabethans' in his exploration A man of adventure in the Victorian mould, he was said to possess 'true courage, modesty and kindness of heart'[1] whether in the snows of Tibet, the jungles of New Guinea or the muddy trenches of Flanders. His death was widely lamented in the scientific and geographic fields and was covered in The Times, where a friend described 'his patient courage, his resourcefulness and constant cheerfulness' and described how he possessed the 'eternal boyishness of the Elizabethans' in his exploration. (wikipedia 2013-06-05)
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