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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 32603 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 7th Battalion
More about William George Burton -
Born 1876
Died 1917
British Army 54628 Private Liverpool Regiment
British Army 57563* Private Cheshire Regiment 20th (Labour) Battalion
British Army 57663 Private Cheshire Regiment 20th (Labour) Battalion.
More about Richard Atkinson -
Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army 8481 Lance Corporal Royal Irish Regiment
British Army 8481 Private Royal Irish Regiment
British Army 8481 Lance Serjeant Royal Irish Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Joseph Rowan -
Born 1893
Died 1918
British Army 34404 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 15th Battalion
More about Cecil Clifford Capell -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 49307 Sapper Royal Engineers Wireless Sqdn. (Worcester)
More about John Arthur Hargreaves Fenton -
Born 1883
Died 1917
British Army 32292 Private South Lancashire Regiment
More about William Halstead -
Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 47078 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery
More about George Roland Fox -
Born 1888
Died 1917
British Army 34004 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 1st Battalion
More about Robert Norman Shingles -
Born 1890
Died 1917
British Army 701529 Gunner Royal Field Artillery 330th Brigade
More about William Hartley -
Died 1916
British Army L/24065 Gunner Royal Field Artillery 31st Div. Ammunition Col.
More about Dan Oldfield -
Born 1878
Died 1917
British Army 32922 Corporal Lincolnshire Regiment
British Army 6723 Private Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) 10th Battalion
British Army Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment)
More about Joseph Francis Starbuck -
Born 1888
Died 1917
British Army L/17390 Driver Royal Field Artillery
British Army L/17390 Bombardier Royal Field Artillery 82nd Bde.
More about George William Fawcett -
Born 1898
Died 1918
British Army 204563 Private Royal Welsh Fusiliers 13th Battalion
More about Thomas White -
Born 1860
Died 1916
British Army 20560 Private Monmouthshire Regiment (TF) 4th Sup. Coy.
More about Henry John Jones -
Died 1917
British Army L/45568 Driver Royal Field Artillery 187th Bde
More about Arthur Ashworth -
Born 1889
Died 1917
British Army 203806 Private East Lancashire Regiment 2nd/4th Battalion
More about James Ashworth -
Born 1878
Died 1915
British Army 1941 Private Coldstream Guards 3rd Battalion
More about John Ashworth -
Born 1883
Died 1917
British Army 241074 Lance Sergeant East Lancashire Regiment 2/5th Battalion
More about Arthur Hudson Ashworth -
Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 37177 Private East Lancashire Regiment 8th Battalion
More about John Winterbottom -
Born 1884
Died 1917
British Army 23879 Private King's (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 6th Battalion.
More about John William Ashworth