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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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Born 1890
Died 1917
British Army 27795 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1st Battalion
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Born 1893
Died 1918
British Army 37707 Private East Lancashire Regiment 11th Battalion.
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Born 1892
Died 1917
British Army 4870 Private Manchester Regiment
British Army 332579 Private The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1st/9th Battalion
More about Walter Rackstraw -
Born 1900
Died 1918
British Army 35308 Private Yorkshire Regiment
British Army 63943 Private Manchester Regiment
British Army 52828 Private East Yorkshire Regiment 1/4th Battalion.
More about Arthur Vernon Heyworth -
Born 1895
Died 1916
British Army 1920 Private Cheshire Regiment 1st/5th Battalion
More about William Rackstraw -
Born 1891
Died 1918
British Army 15592 Lance Corporal East Lancashire Regiment 11th Battalion
More about Ernest Howarth -
Born 1895
Died 1918
British Army 434314 Private Canadian Infantry Battalion
British Army 434314 Private Canadian Infantry 50th Bn.
More about Arthur Waller -
Died 1919
British Army 23963 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
British Army 478537 Private Labour Corps 180th Coy
More about Thomas Ogden -
Born 1891
Died 1917
British Army 27622 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 57606 Private Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 97th Coy.
More about James Hoyle -
Born 1881
Died 1917
British Army 3685 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 7th Battalion
British Army 266230 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1/7th Battalion
More about James Pressley Tookey -
Born 1889
Died 1916
British Army 20204 Private East Lancashire Regiment 6th Battalion
More about James Henry Kelly -
Born 1892
Died 1918
British Army A-382208 Private Army Service Corps
British Army 47173 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 1/7th Battalion
More about Edward Pilling -
Born 1879
Died 1917
British Army 12577 Lancashire Fusiliers
British Army 12577 Private Lancashire Fusiliers
British Army 242418 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 2nd/6th Battalion
More about George Crabtree -
Born 1885
Died 1917
British Army 12551 Private East Lancashire Regiment 7th east Battalion
British Army 12551 Corporal East Lancashire Regiment 7th east Battalion
British Army 12551 Corporal East Lancashire Regiment 7th Battalion
More about Thomas Collis -
Born 1896
Died 1916
Royal Navy 1131 S Private Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth Division 190th Brigade Machine Gun Company
More about Lance Pickup -
Born 1891
Died 1918
British Army 9488 Private Manchester Regiment 17th (Service) Battalion
More about William Welton -
Born 1899
Died 1920
British Army 78804 Gunner Royal Horse & Field Artillery
British Army 2501 Driver Royal Garrison Artillery 136th Heavy Battery
British Army 187511 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery "W" Bty.
More about Arthur Bracewell -
Born 1893
Died 1918
British Army 2114 Private Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
British Army 325281 Private Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1/8th Battalion
More about John Mccue -
Born 1888
Died 1915
British Army 11668 Private Border Regiment 6th Battalion
More about John Holt -
Born 1888
Died 1917
British Army 34005 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 1st Battalion
More about Dennis Riley