Rowland Raw

{{Short description|English cricketer and British Army officer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| country = England

| fullname = Rowland Raw

| birth_date = 16 July 1884

| birth_place = Pietermaritzburg, Colony of Natal

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1915|8|7|1884|7|16}}

| death_place = Suvla, Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey

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| batting = Right-handed

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| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 2

| runs1 = 48

| bat avg1 = 24.00

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 47

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 0/–

| date = 22 June

| year = 2019

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/19595.html Cricinfo

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Rowland Raw (16 July 1884 – 7 August 1915) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

Raw was born at Pietermaritzburg in the Colony of Natal to George and Edith Raw.{{cite book |title=Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War |last1=McCrery |first1=Nigel |date=2015 |publisher=Pen and Sword |page=151 |isbn=978-1473864191 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HnBhCgAAQBAJ |language=en}} He was educated in England at Clifton College,"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p208: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948 before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, though he did not represent the university in cricket. He made his debut in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of England when he played two matches against Cambridge University at Crystal Palace in June 1905.{{cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32264/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Rowland Raw |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-06-22 |url-access=subscription}} He scored 48 runs across his two matches, with a high score of 47.{{cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32264/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Rowland Raw |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-06-22 |url-access=subscription}} After leaving Cambridge he married Mary Raw of Witley, Surrey. He served in the First World War with the Lancashire Fusiliers, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in December 1914.{{London Gazette |issue=28995|date=4 December 1914|page=10304}} He sailed from Liverpool in July 1915 to take part in the Gallipoli Campaign, where he was killed in action at Suvla on 7 August 1915. He was buried at the Hill 10 Cemetery.