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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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Born 1889
Died 1915
British Army 16953 Private Shropshire Light Infantry 5th Battalion
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Born 1880
Died 1916
British Army 21776 Private East Lancashire Regiment
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Born 1887
Died 1916
British Army 16842 Private East Lancashire Regiment 6th Battalion
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Died 1917
British Army 5164 Private Royal Highlanders
British Army 201483 Lance Corporal Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 4th/5th Battalion
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Born 1899
Died 1917
British Army 18272 East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 27134 Private Machine Gun Corps
British Army 18272 Private East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion.
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Born 1885
Died 1917
British Army 12551 Private East Lancashire Regiment 7th east Battalion
British Army 12551 Corporal East Lancashire Regiment 7th east Battalion
British Army 12551 Corporal East Lancashire Regiment 7th 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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Born 1874
Died 1915
British Army 7177 Private East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1879
Died 1917
British Army 54541 Private King's (Liverpool Regiment)
British Army 61226 Private Cheshire Regiment 22nd (Labour) Battalion
British Army 37903 Corporal Labour Corps 64th Company
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Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 24117 Private East Lancashire Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Thomas Wilson -
Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 31188 Private Manchester Regiment 12th Battalion.
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Died 1917
British Army 100721 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery 165th Heavy Bty.
More about James Knowles -
Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army 4601 Private King's Own Scottish Borderers 1st/5th Battalion
More about James Bradley -
Born 1880
Died 1916
British Army 43076 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery
British Army 28343 Private Cheshire Regiment 9th Battalion
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Died 1917
British Army 3443 Private Manchester Regiment
British Army 52219 Private King's (Liverpool Regiment) 19th Battalion
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Born 1892
Died 1916
British Army 12748 Lance Corporal East Lancashire Regiment 7th Battalion
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Born 1892
Died 1916
British Army 29677 Private South Lancashire Regiment
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Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 50406 Private Prince Of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) 2nd Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 27742 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 48989 Private The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 13th Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army 6381 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 26710 Lance Corporal Machine Gun Corps
British Army 26710 Lance Corporal Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 113th Coy.
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