Colonel Stuart William Hughes Rawlins, CB, CMG, DSO (11 May 1880 – 16 December 1927) was a British Army officer who led interwar experiments in chemical warfare at Porton Down.
[4] Following the end of the war in South Africa, he was in October 1902 posted with the 14th Battery at Cawnpore in British India.
[5] He was later attached to the 5th (Uganda) Battalion of the King's African Rifles where he saw action against the Yobos tribe.
He was promoted to colonel in 1919 and was the Commandant of the Chemical Warfare Experimental Station at Porton Down from the same year until 1925.
He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in June 1924 in recognition for his work at Porton Down.