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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Died 1916
British Army 4155 Private Lancashire Fusiliers
British Army 19541 Private East Lancashire Regiment 2nd Battalion
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
Born 1892
Died 1917
British Army 69743 Private Royal Army Medical Corps River Sick Convoy Unit
Born 1882
Died 1916
British Army S/13191 Private Gordon Highlanders 1st Battalion.
Born 1893
Died 1916
British Army 26286 Private East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion
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
Born 1890
Died 1918
British Army 36221 Private East Lancashire Regiment 6th Battalion
Died 1915
British Army 12062 Private East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion.
Born 1889
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 2893 Private Australian Infantry 44th Battalion
Born 1894
Died 1916
British Army 17557 Private East Lancashire Regiment 8th east Battalion
British Army 17557 Private East Lancashire Regiment 8th Battalion
Born 1891
Died 1916
British Army 32454 Private Royal Army Medical Corps 8th Stat. Hosp
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.
Died 1918
British Army 29724 Private Royal Army Medical Corps River Sick Convoy, Mesopotamia
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
Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 35079 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 35079 Private East Lancashire Regiment 8th Battalion
Born 1887
Died 1917
British Army 37127 Private East Lancashire Regiment 8th Battalion
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