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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 36341 Private East Lancashire Regiment 8th Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1915
British Army 1890 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 1890 Lance Corporal East Lancashire Regiment
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Died 1917
British Army 235304 Private Liverpool Regiment 20th Battalion
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Born 1880
Died 1916
British Army 21776 Private East Lancashire Regiment
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Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 94426 Private Liverpool Regiment 13th Battalion
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Died 1916
British Army 12181 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 20431 Private East Lancashire Regiment 7th Battalion
More about Charles Mcallister Bateman -
Born 1895
Died 1916
British Army 14517 Private Coldstream Guards
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Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 18837 Private Royal Lancaster Regiment
British Army 18837 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1st Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 21849 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1st Battalion
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Died 1917
British Army 19812 Private East Lancashire Regiment 9th Battalion
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Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 202331 Private Welsh Regiment 1/4th Battalion.
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Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 12439 Private Surrey Yeomanry
British Army 40002 Private East Surrey Regiment 8th Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 240128 Acting Corporal East Lancashire Regiment 1st/5th Battalion
More about John William Ashworth -
Born 1890
Died 1916
British Army 9255 Private East Surrey Regiment 3rd east Battalion
British Army 9255 Lance Corporal East Surrey Regiment 12th Battalion
More about Nathaniel Spencer Beard -
Born 1895
Died 1916
British Army 26249 Private Royal Dublin Fusiliers
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Died 1917
British Army 12742 Private East Lancashire Regiment 7th Battalion.
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Died 1915
British Army 47190 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery
British Army 20157 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 6th Battalion
More about John William Mitchell -
Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army L/45569 Driver Royal Field Artillery 187th Bde.
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Born 1894
Died 1915
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Warwickshire Regiment attached South Wales Borderers
British Army Lieutenant Royal Warwickshire Regiment attached South Wales Borderers 3rd Battalion
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