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Borough of Rawtenstall: Newchurch Grammar School & Bacup and Rawtenstall Secondary School War Memorial, Waterfoot. (IWM Ref: 63067 - 35 names recorded at Dedication Ceremony) ... and others.
Borough of Rawtenstall: Newchurch Grammar School & Bacup and Rawtenstall Secondary School War Memorial, Waterfoot. (IWM Ref: 63067 - 35 names recorded at Dedication Ceremony) ... and others.
"To the honour of the Old Boys of this / School and the Newchurch Grammar / School who died for their country in / the Great War 1914-1918" / Roll of Honour / Entered School in (place / year shown on attached photograph) / James Pinnington / Michael Heys / Norman Whittaker / Percy Turnbull / James Hutchinson / Norman Wilkinson / Edward M. Wright / Jesse Temperley / Reginald A. Stock / Edward P. Jackson / (William) Ernest Jackson / Harry Smith / Albert Aspden / James A. Tomlinson / Vernon Stewart / Frank Horrocks / Richard C. Hardman / Albert Titterington / John E. Slater / Albert Holt / Percy Horsfield / W. Rae Pickup / Arthur Taylor / Joseph Harvey / James Arthur Ray / Fred Howarth / Tom Fielding / James G. Collinge / Alan Booth / Ronald Andrew / Edward H. Holden / Frank Hitchen / Frank W. Mitchell / Sidney W. Ashworth / L. Norman Shepherd / NOTES: 1. Still to be positively identified: Michael Heys and Fred Haworth on centre panel Bacup Borough War Memorial as M. and F. 2. Community also includes: a. TEACHER: Rev. Louis Rogers MC, a former master at Newchurch Grammar School who "Served and Returned". b. STUDENT: AM1. Frank Trippier, former student at Newchurch Grammar School, who also "Served and Returned". c. WORKER: Pte. Wilfred Trickett, son of the Head Caretaker BRSS, accidentally killed in France in July 1918. d. ORPHANED SCHOLARSHIP STUDENT: Winston, son of WR/28319 Spr. John Robert Place RE. e. FORMER HEADMASTER (?..1889-1901..?): Rev. Reynell Wreford Hay who did not serve but lost a son (Lieutenant Roger Bolton Hay, M.C. d.17/07/1917, Royal Flying Corps) and three brother-in-laws (Captain Maurice Baldwin Bolton. MC d.26/03/1918, Lieutenant John Bolton d.4/06/1915 and Captain Harry Hargreaves Bolton d. 24/05/1915, all of the East Lancashire Regiment and with connections to the Bolton family of Heightside, Newchurch-in-Rossendale).
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Born 1889
Died 1919
British Army 257915 Sapper Royal Engineers
British Army WR/28319 Sapper Royal Engineers 320th Quarrying Company
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Born 1888
Died 1918
British Army 56136 Lance Corporal King's (Liverpool Regiment)
British Army Second Lieutenant King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 3rd Battalion
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Born 1891
Died 1915
British Army Second Lieutenant Lancashire Fusiliers
British Army 10728 Private Manchester Regiment 3rd City Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant Lancashire Fusiliers 13th Battalion attached 1st Battalion
More about James Ashworth Tomlinson -
Born 1892
Died 1916
British Army C/929 Private King's Royal Rifle Corps 16th Battalion
More about Albert Aspden -
Born 1898
Died 1917
Royal Navy 20234 Private Royal Marine Light Infantry, HMS LAURENTIC Chatham Division
More about Frank Hitchen -
Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 33150 Private Norfolk Regiment 9th Battalion
More about Sidney Worswick Ashworth -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army M2/053949 Private Army Service Corps 18th Div. Mechanical Transport Coy.
More about Richard Crawshaw Hardman -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 25019 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 43164 Private The Manchester Regiment 21st Battalion (6th City)
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Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 202186 Lance Corporal East Lancashire Regiment 2/4th Battalion
More about Arthur Taylor -
Born 1891
Died 1917
British Army 5873 Private London Regiment 28th Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant East Lancashire Regiment 5th Battalion
More about John Elwyn Slater -
Born 1889
Died 1916
British Army 4892 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 2nd/5th Battalion
More about John Percy Turnbull -
Born 1896
Died 1918
British Army 18594 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 7th Battalion)
British Army 57536 Private Lincolnshire Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Wilfred Trickett -
Born 1898
Died 1916
British Army 18057 Private West Yorkshire Regiment
British Army 18057 Private West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) 10th Battalion
More about Alan Booth -
Born 1895
Died 1918
British Army 241827 Lance Corporal East Lancashire Regiment 2/5th Battalion.
More about Albert John Holt -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army T3408 Sapper Royal Engineers
British Army 440610 Sapper Royal Engineers 431st Field Company
More about James Arthur Ray -
Born 1889
Died 1918
British Army Captain Manchester Regiment 9th (Territorial) Battalion
More about Norman Wilkinson -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army Lieutenant Army Service Corps
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps 19 Squadron
More about Vernon Radcliffe Stewart -
Born 1891
Died 1917
British Army 103094 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery 177th Siege Bty.
More about Albert Wray Titterington -
Born 1887
Died 1915
British Army 5098 Private Royal Fusiliers 20th Battalion
More about James Hutchinson -
Born 1890
Died 1919
British Army 221134 Sapper Royal Engineers
British Army WR-20379 Lance Corporal Royal Engineers 302nd Road Construction Coy.
More about Reginald Alfred Stock