Borough of Rawtenstall: Casualties as reported in the Rossendale Free Press (1914 - 1921) - PENDING FULL TRANSCRIPTION.

Borough of Rawtenstall: Casualties as reported in the Rossendale Free Press (1914 - 1921) - PENDING FULL TRANSCRIPTION.

With acknowledgement and thanks to Rossendale Library, Rawtenstall who hold the only known microfiche copies of the relevant newspapers. With acknowledgement and thanks to CEMSEARCH-UK whose "Rossendale WW1 Casualties As Reported in the Rossendale Free Press" (http://www.cemsearch.co.uk/rosscas.html) provides the basic framework for this Community. The extracted information is added to individual "lives" under story "FURTHER RESEARCH: Rossendale Free PRESS (date of entry)" followed by detail showing (where available) surname, forename, rank, unit, address, date of newspaper entry and age. NOTES: 1. It is unlikely this Community will be followed through with Transcriptions prior to the closure of the Lives Project in 2019. 2. Additions to "Rossendale WW1 Casualties As Reported in the Rossendale Free Press" are added here but have not been forwarded to CEMSEARCH.com. 3. Those local servicemen whose deaths are not recorded in "Rossendale WW1 Casualties As Reported in the Rossendale Free Press", and have no known local War Memorial, are grouped under the Community "Borough of Rawtenstall. Rawtenstall. Cenotaph (IWM Ref: 594 - no names)" 4. Those personnel named on the Rawtenstall Municipal War Memorial are (mostly) not recorded here. For a full transcript of these obituaries and newspaper memorials as published in the Rossendale Free Press 1914-1918 visit - http://rawtenstallwarmemorial.org.uk/index.html

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  • Profile picture for James Barnes

    Died 1916

    British Army 4155 Private Lancashire Fusiliers

    British Army 19541 Private East Lancashire Regiment 2nd Battalion

  • Profile picture for Henry Carter

    Born 1871

    Died 1918

    British Army 2968 Sergeant Lancashire Fusiliers 2nd Battalion

    British Army 5054 Colour Serjeant 9th Lancashire Fusiliers 9th Battalion

    British Army Second Lieutenant Labour Corps 111 Labour Company

  • Profile picture for George H Yeadon

    Born 1892

    Died 1917

    British Army 69743 Private Royal Army Medical Corps River Sick Convoy Unit

  • Profile picture for John Robert Fielden

    Born 1882

    Died 1916

    British Army S/13191 Private Gordon Highlanders 1st Battalion.

  • Profile picture for Willie Aspden

    Born 1893

    Died 1916

    British Army 26286 Private East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for Frank Brown

    Born 1887

    Died 1917

    British Army 686704 Gunner Royal Field Artillery 175th Bde.

  • Born 1899

    Died 1918

    British Army 282485 Private Lancashire Fusiliers

    British Army 5425 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 2/7th Battalion

    British Army 103161 Private Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) 2nd Battalion

  • Profile picture for Tom Marcroft

    Born 1890

    Died 1918

    British Army 36221 Private East Lancashire Regiment 6th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Robert Lord

    Died 1915

    British Army 12062 Private East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion.

  • Died 1918

    British Army 67451 Private Cheshire Regiment

  • Profile picture for James Henry Tattersall

    Born 1889

    Died 1917

    Australian Imperial Force 2893 Private Australian Infantry 44th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Herbert Barrett

    Born 1894

    Died 1916

    British Army 17557 Private East Lancashire Regiment 8th east Battalion

    British Army 17557 Private East Lancashire Regiment 8th Battalion

  • Profile picture for James Emmanuel Scott

    Born 1891

    Died 1916

    British Army 32454 Private Royal Army Medical Corps 8th Stat. Hosp

  • Profile picture for Ralph Hall

    Born 1893

    Died 1918

    British Army 331389 Trooper Northamptonshire Yeomanry

    British Army 235682 Trooper Northumberland Fusiliers

    British Army 235682 Lance Corporal Northumberland Fusiliers 9th (Northumberland Hussars) Bn.

  • Profile picture for John Ashworth

    Died 1918

    British Army 29724 Private Royal Army Medical Corps River Sick Convoy, Mesopotamia

  • Profile picture for Norman Whittaker

    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

  • Profile picture for Jesse Heap

    Born 1898

    Died 1917

    British Army 35079 Private East Lancashire Regiment

    British Army 35079 Private East Lancashire Regiment 8th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Crook

    Born 1887

    Died 1917

    British Army 37127 Private East Lancashire Regiment 8th Battalion

  • Profile picture for William Robert Dennis

    Died 1917

    British Army 12742 Private East Lancashire Regiment 7th Battalion.

  • Born 1895

    Died 1915

    British Army 1890 Private East Lancashire Regiment

    British Army 1890 Lance Corporal East Lancashire Regiment

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