Dave Rawlins, who was a devoted husband to Eileen Rawlins nee Hughes, his Romany gypsy wife Loving tributes have been paid to a man who travelled by horse and wagon for 50 years around Dorset. Dave Rawlins was devoted to his late wife, Romany gypsy Eileen, and together the two of them travelled the highways and byways of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset and Gloucestershire. Father-of-four Dave was buried in a simple ceremony at Poundbury Cemetery in a service conducted by Revd Jonathan Herbert, Chaplain to Gypsies and Travellers.
A horse-drawn hearse at Dave’s funeral at Poundbury Cemetery He grew up on a farm near Shaftesbury and served nine years in the British Army post war; in Egypt Hong Kong and Singapore.