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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 1896
Died 1917
British Army 1367 Driver Royal Field Artillery
British Army 680295 Gunner Royal Field Artillery "B" Bty. 276th Bde.
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Born 1890
Died 1919
British Army 221134 Sapper Royal Engineers
British Army WR-20379 Lance Corporal Royal Engineers 302nd Road Construction Coy.
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Born 1891
Died 1917
British Army 103094 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery 177th Siege Bty.
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Died 1918
British Army R/11410 Acting Corporal King's Royal Rifle Corps 1st Battalion
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Born 1893
Died 1918
British Army 97766 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery 22nd Heavy Battery
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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 1878
British Army Young Mens Christian Association
British Army T/CF4 Reverend Army Chaplains Department attd. 38th Labour Group
More about Louis Rogers -
Born 1898
Died 1917
Royal Navy 20234 Private Royal Marine Light Infantry, HMS LAURENTIC Chatham Division
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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
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Died 1918
British Army WR/355238 Royal Engineers
British Army L/18031 Bombardier Royal Field Artillery (County Palatine) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
British Army 252021 Acting 2nd Corporal Royal Engineers 33rd Light Railway Operating Coy.
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Born 1889
Died 1917
British Army GS/47443 Private Machine Gun Corps
British Army Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps 92nd Company
British Army 5795 Private Royal Fusiliers 20th Battalion
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Born 1898
Died 1918
British Army TR4/30818 Private Training Reserve Battalion 64th Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant Manchester Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1918
British Army 18594 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 7th Battalion)
British Army 57536 Private Lincolnshire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1890
Died 1918
British Army 2495 Private Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Manchester Regiment 9th Battalion
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Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army Lieutenant Army Service Corps
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps 19 Squadron
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Born 1891
Died 1917
British Army 5873 Private London Regiment 28th Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant East Lancashire Regiment 5th Battalion
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