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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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Died 1917
British Army 21778 Private East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion.
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Died 1917
British Army L/45568 Driver Royal Field Artillery 187th Bde
More about Arthur Ashworth -
Born 1891
Died 1918
British Army 28649 Private East Yorkshire Regiment 11th Battalion.
More about Fred Camps -
Born 1880
Died 1916
British Army 43076 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery
British Army 28343 Private Cheshire Regiment 9th Battalion
More about John Cooper Cunliffe -
Died 1915
British Army 3/9038 Private Northumberland Fusiliers 1st Battalion
More about Stephen George Bayes -
Born 1893
Died 1916
British Army 11967 Private East Lancashire Regiment 6th east Battalion
British Army 11967 Private East Lancashire Regiment 6th Battalion
More about Fleetwood Brown -
Died 1917
British Army 34432 Private Lancashire Fusiliers
More about William Henry Collier -
Born 1877
Died 1915
British Army 7239 Private East Lancashire Regiment
More about William Disley -
Born 1897
Died 1917
British Army 201488 Private Royal Welsh Fusiliers 2nd Battalion
More about Wilfred Feber -
British Army 5435 Private Royal Field Artillery
British Army 5435 Driver Royal Field Artillery
More about William T Chevin -
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.
More about Ralph Hall -
Born 1883
Died 1917
British Army W/2728 Follower Royal Field Artillery
British Army W/2728 Corporal Royal Field Artillery
More about Samuel Hannah -
Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 25708 Private Grenadier Guards 3rd Battalion
More about Soloman Hanson -
Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 47078 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery
More about George Roland Fox -
Born 1878
Died 1918
British Army 224326 Gunner Royal Field Artillery "X" 42nd Trench Mortar Bty. Royal Field Artillery
More about John William Haworth -
Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army 4586 Private Machine Gun Corps
British Army 29838 Private South Lancashire Regiment 8th Battalion
More about John Thomas Haworth -
Died 1916
British Army 20945 Private Worcestershire Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about William Heap -
Died 1918
British Army 267606 Private Cheshire Regiment 1/5th Battalion
More about Henry Lake -
Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 21096 Private Royal Lancaster Regiment
British Army 242029 Private East Lancashire Regiment 1/5th Battalion.
More about Albert Dawkes -
Died 1917
British Army 204347 Private Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) 2nd Battalion
More about Sam Schofield Bullas