| Raikes | Francis Howard | | Lieutenant | He was killed in action at Wagon Hill, Ladysmith, January 6th, 1900. He was the only child of Judge F W Raikes, of the Leat House, Malton, Yorkshire, was born in July 1879, and educated at Eton, from where he passed direct into Sandhurst. He entered the King's Royal Rifle Corps from the Royal Military College in July 1898, being promoted Lieutenant December 1899. He rejoined his battalion in Natal on war being declared, and was present at the battle of Farquhar's Farm, and afterwards served in Ladysmith. The day he was killed Lieutenant Raikes, although he belonged to the 2nd battalion, was in command of a half company of the 1st battalion, and in the early morning of January 6th he had posted his men in two rifle pits which had been constructed on the Nek between Wagon Hill and Caesar's Camp. At the commencement of the Boer attack he was on the ground between, so that he might better direct the fire of his men. As the enemy continued to approach closer Lieutenant Raikes, thinking it would come to hand-to-hand fighting, called out to Sergeant Davies in one of the rifle pits asking if there was room for him. Sergeant Davies replied "Yes, but take care of the heavy fire". Lieutenant Raikes replied "Look out, I am coming" and then ran to the rifle pit but fell dead just as he reached it, shot through the heart. Some reinforcements now arrived, but this young officer and his handful of riflemen had held the enemy in check till 8 am. When he fell he was probably the youngest Lieutenant in the army. He was buried half way up the Nek between Wagon Hill and Caesar's Camp. The East window of St Peter's Parish Church, Norton, is dedicated to his memory and that of other comrades who fell January 6th. A bronze memorial tablet was erected to Lieutenant Raikes in Mold Parish Church, and a brass tablet in the School of Handicrafts at Chertsey, in which Institution he took the greatest interest (See Major Bowen). QSA (1). Apr 05 £4,750.
Source: Donner | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Raikes | G L | | Lieutenant (RMA) | QSA (0).
Source: QSA medal rolls | HMS Ophir |
| Raikes | G L | | Lieutenant (RMA) | QSA (0).
Source: QSA medal rolls | HMS Monarch |
| Raikes | T H | | Lieutenant | QSA (1) DoL
Provisional list of recipients
Source: Ladysmith Siege Account and Medal Roll | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Rail | A E | | Engine Room Articifer | QSA (0). Ref: 268.901.
Source: QSA medal rolls | HMS Pelorus |
| Rail | Alexander Mcdonald | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA rolls | Imperial Light Horse |
| Railing | | | Corporal | Missing in action. Klipdrift, 7 February 1902
Rejoined
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll | Cape Police |
| Raillings | A | | Gunner | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Bulawayo Field Force |
| Railly | J | 1809 | Private | Frontier Wars. SAGS (1) 1879 | (Princess Louise's) Sutherland and Argyll Highland |
| Railson | G | | | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Northumberland Fusiliers |
| Railston | William | 3317 | Private | Source: QSA Medal Rolls | 15th Company, 5th Btn, IY |
| Railton | | 870 | Sergeant | MID LG: 7 May 1901, page: 3115. Source: General Kitchener. 8 March 1901. Re: General mentions
This page contains all the London Gazette pages for the Boer War | Northumberland Fusiliers |
| Railton | E A | 3405 | Corporal | Killed in action. Heilbron, 21 September 1900
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll | Kitchener's Horse |
| Railton | E A | 3405 | Corporal | Demise: Killed in action 21 Sep 1900
Place: Heilbron
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt | Kitchener's Horse |
| Railton | E A | | | Source: QSA and KSA rolls | DEOVR |
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