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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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Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army 4586 Private Machine Gun Corps
British Army 29838 Private South Lancashire Regiment 8th Battalion
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Born 1886
Died 1917
British Army 79598 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery 83rd Company
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Died 1917
British Army 27887 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 56513 Private King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1st Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army 24919 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 139218 Corporal Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
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Born 1898
Died 1916
British Army 18057 Private West Yorkshire Regiment
British Army 18057 Private West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) 10th Battalion
More about Alan Booth -
Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army 18839 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
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Born 1876
British Army 7120 Private East Lancashire Regiment 3rd Battalion
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Born 1882
Died 1916
British Army 11719 Private Manchester Regiment 19th Battalion
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Born 1886
Died 1917
British Army 12 Acting Corporal Lancashire Fusiliers
British Army 12 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 2nd Battalion
British Army 12 Serjeant Lancashire Fusiliers 9th Battalion
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Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 12439 Private Surrey Yeomanry
British Army 40002 Private East Surrey Regiment 8th Battalion
More about Thomas Barnes -
Died 1915
British Army 5089 Private King's Royal Rifle Corps
British Army 5089 Rifleman King's Royal Rifle Corps
More about Arthur Shuttleworth -
Died 1917
British Army 37347 Private East Lancashire Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Thomas Jones -
Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 25708 Private Grenadier Guards 3rd Battalion
More about Soloman Hanson -
Born 1890
Died 1917
British Army 25198 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 39800 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 1st Battalion
More about James Barlow -
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 1894
Died 1917
British Army T3408 Sapper Royal Engineers
British Army 440610 Sapper Royal Engineers 431st Field Company
More about James Arthur Ray -
Born 1885
Died 1918
British Army 35986 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 17th Battalion
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Born 1889
Died 1918
British Army Captain Manchester Regiment 9th (Territorial) Battalion
More about Norman Wilkinson -
Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army 11969 Private East Lancashire Regiment 6th Battalion
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Died 1917
British Army 34432 Private Lancashire Fusiliers
More about William Henry Collier