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 1877
Died 1915
British Army 7239 Private East Lancashire Regiment
Born 1895
Died 1916
British Army 22701 Private Worcestershire Regiment 4th Battalion
Died 1915
British Army 2607 Lance Corporal 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards,
British Army
British Army D/2607 Serjeant 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 28640 Private East Lancashire Regiment 7th Bn.
Died 1918
British Army 44257 Private Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion
Died 1915
British Army 19761 Private East Lancashire Regiment 3rd Battalion
Born 1886
Died 1915
British Army Captain East Lancashire Regiment Territorial Force
British Army Captain East Lancashire Regiment
Died 1917
British Army 23511 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 28722 Private Border Regiment 1st Battalion
Died 1917
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Born 1882
Died 1915
Canadian Expeditionary Force 3345 Private Canadian Army Medical Corps
Born 1890
Died 1916
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British Army 9255 Lance Corporal East Surrey Regiment 12th Battalion
Born 1883
Died 1915
British Army 6888 Private Border Regiment 2nd Battalion
Died 1916
British Army 23237 East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 23949 Royal Lancaster Regiment
British Army 27386 Private Border Regiment
Born 1891
Died 1918
British Army 797274 Gunner Royal Field Artillery
British Army 92447 Gunner Royal Field Artillery 246th Bde.
Died 1917
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Born 1888
Died 1917
British Army 14962 Private Royal Lancaster Regiment
British Army 14962 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 8th Battalion.
Died 1917
British Army 24345 Private East Lancashire Regiment 6th Battalion.
Died 1916
British Army 27869 Private Prince Of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) 2nd Battalion
Died 1917
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Born 1879
Died 1917
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