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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 1916
British Army 23237 East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 23949 Royal Lancaster Regiment
British Army 27386 Private Border Regiment
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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.
More about Harold Beard -
Died 1917
British Army 97612 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery 51st Siege Bty.
More about Robert Cronkshaw -
Born 1897
Died 1917
British Army 19944 Private Grenadier Guards
British Army 7 Lance Corporal Guards Machine Gun Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Northumberland Fusiliers 23rd (4th Tyneside Scottish)
More about Fred Ashworth -
Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 41045 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 2nd/8th Bn.
More about George Greaves -
Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 61213 Private Manchester Regiment 18th Battalion
More about James Leslie Crossley -
Died 1915
British Army 5323 Private East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Richard Cookson -
Died 1916
British Army 16969 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 16969 Serjeant East Lancashire Regiment 7th Battalion.
More about James William Stowe -
Died 1917
British Army 32061 Private Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
British Army 32061 Private The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 2/4th Battalion (Territorial Force)
More about William Terry -
Born 1890
Died 1916
British Army 40799 Gunner Royal Field Artillery 40th Bde
More about Thomas Edward Watkins -
Born 1880
Died 1917
British Army 1617 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 2/6th Battalion.
More about James Albert Wilkinson -
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 27739 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 48995 Private King's (Liverpool Regiment) 13th Battalion
More about James Henry Wilson -
Born 1882
Died 1916
British Army 11719 Private Manchester Regiment 19th Battalion
More about William Woodhead -
Died 1917
British Army 23511 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 28722 Private Border Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Joseph Wright -
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 27742 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 48989 Private The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 13th Battalion
More about Fred Spencer -
Born 1892
Died 1916
British Army 12748 Lance Corporal East Lancashire Regiment 7th Battalion
More about Albert Vernon Harcourt Smith -
Died 1917
British Army 33386 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1/4th Battalion
More about Harry Pickup -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army T3408 Sapper Royal Engineers
British Army 440610 Sapper Royal Engineers 431st Field Company
More about James Arthur Ray -
Died 1918
British Army 87014 Private King's (Liverpool Regiment)
British Army 52872 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 1/7th Battalion.
More about Harry Hall -
Died 1915
British Army 12062 Private East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion.
More about Robert Lord