Borough of Rawtenstall: Prisoners of War and known German interments

Borough of Rawtenstall: Prisoners of War and known German interments

This community records those who were noted as Prisoners of War during research into local memorials and sites within the former Borough of Rawtenstall. It does not, in any way, indicate a complete record of all of those locals who were taken as Prisoners of War. NOTES: Still to be identified: 1. Pte Edgar Lord of Bethlehem Unitarian Church, Newchurch-in-Rossendale. 2. Pte Douglas Taylor RWF of Cloughfold (in Hannover). 3. Rossendale Free Press 1/03/1916 has an article with photo "RAWTENSTALL TRAM DRIVER - PRISONER OF WAR IN GERMANY Corporal A.W Riley resided at 21 Rockcliffe Street Rawtenstall up to being called up as a reservist in the Lancashire Fusiliers on August 4th 1914 ……." 4. Pte Willie Parkinson, 14 Adelaide St, Crawshawbooth. Signaller Harry Sellars of Crawshawbooth. Pte Ernest Lord of Hill Street, Crawshawbooth. Pte Herbert Rogers of Forest Holme, Lumb. Pte E. Watts of Cloughfold. Pte Harry Ashworth of Waterfoot. Pte Willie Oldham of Crawshawbooth......and many, many more. 5. 235037 Pte Arthur Haworth of Waterfoot and 203160 Private Thomas Callaghan of Cloughfold are included here as found dead and buried by the Germans.

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  • Profile picture for Walter Carter

    Born 1894

    British Army 22130 Private East Lancashire Regiment

    British Army 10758 Private Machine Gun Corps

  • Profile picture for Joseph Edward Ashworth

    Born 1895

    Died 1918

    British Army 21668 Pte East Lancashire Regiment

    British Army 26657 Lance Corporal Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 25th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Edward Carr.

    British Army 20422 Private East Lancashire Regiment 7th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Arthur Haworth

    Born 1897

    Died 1918

    British Army 4934 Private East Lancashire Regiment

    British Army 235037 Private Prince Of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) 2nd Battalion.

  • Profile picture for William Ernest Jackson

    Died 1918

    British Army R/11410 Acting Corporal King's Royal Rifle Corps 1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for Harry Clegg

    British Army 91186 Private Liverpool Regiment

  • Profile picture for Joseph Waller

    Born 1894

    British Army 9074 Private King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1/10th (Scottish) Reserve Battalion

    British Army 358771 Private King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1/10th Battalion

  • Profile picture for William Warwick

    Born 1893

    Died 1918

    British Army 7117 Private Scots Guards 1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for Eli Oldfield

    Born 1898

    British Army 202143 Private Royal Defence Corps

    British Army 202143 Private East Lancashire Regiment 4th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Herbert Greenoff

    Born 1893

    Died 1971

    British Army 358708 Private King's (Liverpool Regiment) 10th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Fred Fielding

    Born 1893

    British Army 23791 Corporal Lancashire Fusiliers

    British Army 30227 Corporal King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 19th MGC

    British Army 142349 Corporal Machine Gun Corps

  • Profile picture for John Richard Chadwick

    Born 1886

    British Army 201872 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1/5th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Alfred Fenn

    Born 1888

    Died 1917

    British Army 28334 Private Grenadier Guards 3rd Battalion

  • Profile picture for Henry Bell Parkinson

    Born 1883

    Died 1918

    British Army 235220 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 11th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Albert Rogers

    Born 1894

    Died 1918

    British Army 26628 Private East Lancashire Regiment

    British Army 44641 Private Manchester Regiment 12th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Joseph Robert Kay

    British Army 5689 Serjeant East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for Samuel Platt

    British Army 47784 Private Cheshire Regiment

    British Army 37595 Private Labour Corps

  • Profile picture for Charles Edward Essam

    Born 1894

    Died 1919

    British Army 19557 Private Army Cyclist Corps

    British Army 19557 Lance Corporal Army Cyclist Corps

  • Profile picture for Douglas Turner

    Born 1899

    British Army 41133 Training Reserve Battalion

    British Army 58027 Private Royal Welsh Fusiliers 13th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Jack Haworth

    Born 1898

    British Army 5415 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)

    British Army 201760 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1/4th Battalion

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