Rev. David Youngson has submitted the following:
Captain Lancelot RAIMES
Durham Light Infantry
5th Battalion
The son of Frederick Raimes of Stockton-on-Tees he was born in 1887. Educated at The Ley School, Cambridge, he studied at Caius College Cambridge and read Medieval and Modern Languages (Winchester Reading Prize). He trained for the Priesthood at Ripon College from 1910 to 1911 and following Ordination was Curate of Chipping Norton, Diocese of Oxford. At the outbreak of war he joined the Durham Light Infantry, with whom he had previously held a Commission, as a combatant Officer. After some twenty months training men at home he went to the Front and was killed by a sniper shot to the head three weeks after his arrival, he died of wounds ten minutes later without regaining consciousness on the 1st June 1916 age 29. He is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France, Grave Reference II.D.52. His name appears in the Book of Remembrance situated in the DLI Chapel at Durham Cathedral and on the Ley School, Cambridge Roll of Honour. He is also Remembered on the 1914-1918 Plaque in the Yarm Road Methodist Church, Stockton-on-Tees and his name is recorded on a pew in Stockton Parish Church, Book of Remembrance, Stockton Parish Church and the DLI Book of Remembrance in Stockton Parish Church.
The Newcastle Daily Chronicle 08/11/1916 reports:
“A Durham Officer’s Estate.
Captain the Rev. Launcelot Raimes, of Hartburn Lodge, Stockton-on-Tees, of the Durham Light Infantry, son of the late Mr. Frederick Raimes, of Hartburn Lodge, at the outbreak of war was in holy orders at Chipping Barnet, Herts. He secured the sanction of the bishop to rejoin his old regiment, and died on active service in France on June 1, last, leaving estate valued at £8,647 1s 0d with net personalty of £7,470 1s. Mr. Alwyn Leslie Raimes, of Hartburn Lodge, his brother, and Mrs. Elsie Marion Raimes Dent, of Monkbridge Road, Headingly, Leeds, his sister, Mr. Herbert William Drabble, of Woodford, Essex and Mr. Frederick Thomas Nattras, of Stockton, are the executors. The will is dated September 4, 1914, wherein testator left 1,000 £1 preference shares in Raimes and Co.Ltd., each to his sisters Elsie Marion Raimes Dent and Marjorie Dent; £100 each to the executors and £50 to his godchild, Isabel Mary Raimes Dent. The residue of his property he leaves in trust for his mother during her life and for the payment of certain mortgages created by his late father, and, subject thereto, the ultimate residue in trust for his brother Alwyn and his issue.”
Lancelot Raimes is remembered in Stockton on S138.17 S138.18 S138.35 and S138.63 and in the D.L.I. Book of Remembrance page 138
