medical operation for a stomach ailment, although not long before the operation he had played polo and cricket and seemed fit and well. His body was carried back to England on the SS Assaye, which was met on reaching the English Channel by a Royal Navy destroyer, onto which the coffin was transferred, then carried into Portsmouth Harbour, being met at the South Jetty by a military ceremonial receiving party. Rawlinson was buried in the chapel of St Michael and St George in the north transept of St Andrew's Church, Trent, in the county of Dorset. Personal life Rawlinson was a gifted water colour artist. In March 1920, he and Winston Churchill enjoyed a painting holiday together on the French estate of the Duke of Westminster. "The General paints in water colours and does it very well," wrote Churchill. "With all my enormous paraphernalia, I have produced very indifferent results here." He married Meredith Sophia Francis Kennard (1861–1931) at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London on 5 November 1890, the marriage producing no children. On Henry Rawlinson's death the baronetcy passed to his brother Alfred Rawlinson. Honours British Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) - 14 July 1917 (KCVO: 15 August 1916; CVO: 30 June 1905) Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG) – 1 January 1918 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) – 1 January 1919 (KCB: 18 February 1915; CB: 1902) Baron Rawlinson, of Trent in the County of Dorset – 31 October 1919 Other Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour of France – 24 February 1916 Order of Danilo, 1st Class of the Kingdom of Montenegro – 31 October 1916 Obilitch Medal in Gold of the Kingdom of Montenegro – 21 April 1917 Order of St. George, 4th Class of the Empire of Russia – 1 June 1917 Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold of Belgium – 26 July 1917 Croix de Guerre of Belgium – 11 March 1918 Croix de Guerre of France – 11 March 1919 Army Distinguished Service Medal of the United States – 12 July 1919 References Further reading Atwood, Rodney, (2018) 'General Lord Rawlinson. From Tragedy to Triumph'. Bloomsbury Academic, Jacobsen, Mark, (2002) 'Rawlinson in India'. Publications of the Army Records Society Vol 19.Sutton Publishing, Stroud, Glos. Maurice, Major-General Sir Frederick (1928), The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of