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Borough of Rawtenstall: Cenotaph (IWM Ref: 594 - no names)
Borough of Rawtenstall: Cenotaph (IWM Ref: 594 - no names)
"A TRIBUTE OF HONOUR / TO THE MEN WHO / MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE / TO THOSE MEN WHO CAME BACK /, AND TO THE THOSE WHO WORKED AT HOME / TO WIN SAFETY FOR THE EMPIRE / 1914 - 1918 /" This Community attempts to collate and record those, with a known connection to the Borough of Rawtenstall (e.g. birth, relatives, employment, residence), who are NOT YET IDENTIFIED ON ANY KNOWN LOCAL WAR MEMORIAL. As an observation I would offer the size of this community is an indication of the scale of local casualties who were not formally memorialised in stone or paper and whose story never made the local newspapers for whatever reason. For that very reason I would humbly offer it perhaps serves as the most important "Borough of Rawtenstall" IWM Community. Please note: 1. This Community does not include those singularly recorded as enlistments in Rawtenstall with no other known connection. 2. It should be read in conjunction with "Borough of Rawtenstall: Casualties as reported in the Rossendale Free Press (1914 - 1921) - PENDING FULL TRANSCRIPTION" which includes a large percentage of servicemen merely reported as died in the local newspaper who would also fall into this community - if time had been available to add them before the closure of the IWM LIves Project.
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Died 1916
British Army 4155 Private Lancashire Fusiliers
British Army 19541 Private East Lancashire Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1916
Royal Navy 1131 S Private Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth Division 190th Brigade Machine Gun Company
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Born 1892
Died 1918
British Army A-382208 Private Army Service Corps
British Army 47173 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 1/7th Battalion
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Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army G-23432 Sapper 485th (East Anglian) Field Coy RE
British Army 242163 Sapper Royal Engineers
British Army G/23432 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 8th Pioneer Battalion
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Born 1880
Died 1917
British Army 243058 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment 1/5th Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army 22616 Private East Lancashire Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1888
Died 1915
British Army 16503 Private Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 9th Battalion
British Army
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Died 1916
British Army 15113 Private Devonshire Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army 4700 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 6183 Private Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
British Army 202803 Private Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
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Born 1883
Died 1918
British Army 266987 Private Duke Of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) 2/4th Battalion.
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Born 1894
Died 1917
Canadian Expeditionary Force 219904
Canadian Expeditionary Force 219904 Private Canadian Infantry
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Born 1887
Died 1916
British Army 121878 Sapper Royal Engineers 170 Tunnelling Company
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Born 1897
Died 1917
British Army 6398 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 37074 Private East Lancashire Regiment 8th Battalion
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Born 1886
Died 1916
British Army 3368 Private Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) 6th (Reserve) Battalion
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Born 1879
Died 1916
British Army 7025 Private East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army 7025 Private East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army 11100 Corporal East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1893
Died 1916
British Army M2/113737 Acting Corporal Army Service Corps
British Army M2/113737 Corporal Army Service Corps 605th M.T. Coy.
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Born 1893
Died 1918
British Army 37707 Private East Lancashire Regiment 11th Battalion.
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Born 1897
Died 1918
British Army 2892 A/Corporal East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 8755 A/Corporal Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
British Army 243893 Lance Corporal Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1/5th Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army 26650 Private Border Regiment 2nd Battalion
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