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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  • Profile picture for William Disley

    Born 1877

    Died 1915

    British Army 7239 Private East Lancashire Regiment

  • Profile picture for Harry Hitchen

    Born 1895

    Died 1916

    British Army 22701 Private Worcestershire Regiment 4th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Dan Whittle

    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

  • Profile picture for James Tolworthy

    Born 1895

    Died 1917

    British Army 28640 Private East Lancashire Regiment 7th Bn.

  • Profile picture for Thomas Harvey

    Died 1918

    British Army 44257 Private Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion

  • Died 1915

    British Army 19761 Private East Lancashire Regiment 3rd Battalion

  • Profile picture for Harry Hargreaves Bolton

    Born 1886

    Died 1915

    British Army Captain East Lancashire Regiment Territorial Force

    British Army Captain East Lancashire Regiment

  • Profile picture for Joseph Wright

    Died 1917

    British Army 23511 Private East Lancashire Regiment

    British Army 28722 Private Border Regiment 1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for Harold Wilkinson

    Died 1917

    British Army 28583 Private East Lancashire Regiment 9th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Walter Thomas Smart

    Born 1882

    Died 1915

    Canadian Expeditionary Force 3345 Private Canadian Army Medical Corps

  • Profile picture for Nathaniel Spencer Beard

    Born 1890

    Died 1916

    British Army 9255 Private East Surrey Regiment 3rd east Battalion

    British Army 9255 Lance Corporal East Surrey Regiment 12th Battalion

  • Profile picture for James Whittam

    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

  • Profile picture for John William Watson

    Born 1891

    Died 1918

    British Army 797274 Gunner Royal Field Artillery

    British Army 92447 Gunner Royal Field Artillery 246th Bde.

  • Profile picture for John James Hoyle

    Died 1917

    British Army 37523 Private East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for Thomas Derbyshire

    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.

  • Profile picture for Percival Ashworth

    Died 1916

    British Army 27869 Private Prince Of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) 2nd Battalion

  • Profile picture for Joseph Caygill

    Died 1917

    British Army 242020 Private Royal Lancaster Regiment 2nd/5th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Walter Ormerod

    Born 1879

    Died 1917

    British Army 29126 Private East Lancashire Regiment 8th Battalion

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