Rossendale Family History Society - Rawtenstall Municpal War Memorial

Rawtenstall Municipal War Memorial

The War Memorial - Rawtenstall Municipal Cemetery

This memorial, now listed as an historic monument, was erected at the instigation of Carrie Whitehead J.P. in September 1915 and is recognised as the first community World War One Memorial to be erected in this country.
It was given "Grade II Listed Building" status in August 1999.

The War Memorial 1914 - 1919 Rawtenstall Cemetery
Roll of Honour

This cross was erected by Carrie Whitehead, September 1915
that it might be some comfort to those who lost men very dear to them
In grateful memory of the men of Rawtenstall who gave their lives for their
country in the Great War 1914 - 1918

He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord will wipe away tears from all faces
Is. XXV. 8.

Pte	G. J.	ABBOTT	15	Sep	1916
Pte	Giles Herbert	ALSTON	20	Oct	1917
Lan Corp	F.	ASHWORTH	18	Jul	1916
Pte	Fred	ASHWORTH	22	Apr	1918
Pte	J.	ASHWORTH	6	Feb	1918
Pte	John James	ASHWORTH	5	Apr	1916
Pte	Lawrence S.	ASHWORTH	9	Sep	1917
Pte	Wilfred	ASHWORTH	31	Jul	1917
Pte	William	ASHWORTH	24	Oct	1918
Rifleman	Albert	ASPDEN	15	Jul	1916
Pte	Fred	ASPDEN	3	Nov	1918
Pte	John Walter	ASPDEN	16	Oct	1917
Pte	Percy	ASPDEN	1	Aug	1917
Pte	Willie	ASPDEN	18	Oct	1916
Sapper	Horace	ASPIN	26	Mar	1918
Pte	John	AUSTIN	23	Sep	1915
Gunner	J. S.	AYNGE	10	Jul	1916
Pte	Hartley D.	BANCROFT	1	Jun	1918
Pte	George	BANKS	12	Jan	1918
Pte	J. W.	BARNES	23	Mar	1918
Pte	Thomas	BARNES	21	Oct	1918
Sergt	A .E.	BARRETT	27	Apr	1918
Pte	H.	BATEMAN	7	Aug	1916
Lan Corp	H.	BEARD	8	Jul	1915
Lan Corp	N. S.	BEARD	15	Sep	1915
Bombdr	A. John	BENSON	12	Apr	1917
Pte	Richard A.	BERRY	18	Jan	1916
Pte	R.	BIRTWISTLE	24	Jul	1918
	Samuel	BISHOP	1	Nov	1918
Lieut	John	BOLTON	4	Jun	1915
Capt	Maurice Baldwin	BOLTON	26	Mar	1918
Pte	Edward	BRADFORD	14	Dec	1914
Pte	Fred	BRADLEY	23	Oct	1918
Pte	Ronald	BRADLEY	31	Oct	1916
Pte	Tom	BREGHTY	16	Apr	1918
Gunner	Frank	BROWN	29	Jul	1917
Pte	Cecil Clifford	CAPELL	21	Apr	1918
Gunner	Herbert	CARTER	8	Nov	1917
Pte	Joseph	CAYGILL	28	Oct	1917
Corp	Wm.	CHADDERTON	27	Mar	1919
Pte	Arthur	CLEGG	28	Apr	1917
Pte	Harold	CLEGG	24	Jul	1918
Lan Corp	J. H.	CLEGG	29	Aug	1918
Pte	William	CLEGG	6	Oct	1918
Pte	John	COCKSHUTT	23	Apr	1917
Pte	B.	COLEMAN	21	May	1918
Pte	Ernest	COLLINGE	26	Jul	1917
Corp	Thomas	CONROY	4	Jun	1915
Pte	Harry	COOPER	14	Apr	1918
Pte	Phillip	COOPER	11	May	1915
Pte	Leonard	CORMICK	3	Nov	1914
Sapper	James A.	CROPPER	16	Feb	1919
Pte	W.	CUFF	22	Mar	1918
Sergt	B.	CUNLIFFE	24	Sep	1917
Signr	J. W.	CUNLIFFE	14	Jul	1916
Pte	John H.	CUNLIFFE	3	Jul	1916
Pte	John Hy.	CUNLIFFE	30	Aug	1918
Pte	Arthur	DAVIS	5	Mar	1915
Rifleman	Harry	DAWSON	24	Feb	1916
Gunner	Arthur	DEARDEN	4	Aug	1917
Pte	Joseph W.	DEARDEN	11	Nov	1917
Pte	T.	DERBYSHIRE	28	Apr	1917
Pte	Wm Henry	DRAKE	18	Oct	1916
Pte	James	DRIVER	15	Mar	1917
Pte	James	DRIVER	25	Mar	1918
Pte	James Wm.	DRIVER	13	Oct	1917
Lan Corp	T. F.	DUST	1	Jul	1916
Signr	Tom	DUST	4	Jul	1916
Pte	Andrew D.	DYER	15	Jun	1916
Lan Sergt	Frederick	EATOUGH	13	Aug	1918
Gunner	Percy	ELLIS	10	Jul	1918
Pte	Benjamin	ELLISON	31	Jul	1917
Pte	Richard D.	ELLISON	8	Jul	1916
Corp	T. A.	ELLISON	25	Oct	1917
Pte	Dixon	ENTWISTLE	6	Sep	1917
Corp	S.	EVANS	24	Apr	1918
Pte	John R.	EWBANK	30	Apr	1917
Pte	Arthur	FAWCETT	8	Feb	1919
Bombdr	George W.	FAWCETT	28	May	1917
Pte	Wilfred	FEBER	27	Sep	1917
W.T.	Harry	FENTON	15	May	1917
Sapper	J. A. H.	FENTON	15	Jun	1917
Pte	James	FENTON	8	Feb	1917
Pte	George S.	FIELDING	26	Feb	1917
Lan Corp	Joe	FIELDING	23	Apr	1918
	Tom	FIELDING	31	May	1916
Pte	Willie	FIELDING	28	Sep	1918
Pte	John	FINNEY	31	Jul	1917
Lan Corp	Walter	FOULDS	28	Sep	1918
Pte	James	GORMAN	16	Nov	1914
Pte	George	GREAVES	9	Oct	1917
Pte	Alfred	GREEN	10	Jan	1919
Gunner	B.	GREEN	7	Apr	1918
Pte	Thomas Duddle	GREEN	1	Jul	1916
Pte	William	GREENWOOD	10	Jun	1916
Gunner	Fred	GREGSON	27	Apr	1918
Pte	Thomas	HALEY	18	Sep	1915
Pte	W. T.	HALLIWELL	26	Jun	1917
Pte	J. H.	HALSTEAD	5	Sep	1918
Pte	R. L.	HALSTEAD	5	Jun	1918
Pte	Richard	HALSTEAD	26	Aug	1914
Pte	Tom	HALSTEAD	1	Sep	1915
Driver	R.	HARDMAN	8	May	1917
Pte	George	HARGREAVES	4	Apr	1917
Pte	Herbert W.	HARGREAVES	10	Feb	1917
Pte	J.T.	HARGREAVES	17	Jul	1917
Pte	John	HARGREAVES	12	May	1917
Pte	Richard	HARGREAVES	19	Jun	1917
Pte	John Thomas	HARKER	6	Jul	1917
Pte	A. B.	HARRISON	9	Apr	1917
Pte	James	HARRISON	9	Oct	1917
Gunner	Fred	HAWORTH	8	Jul	1918
Pte	J. W.	HAWORTH	22	Jul	1917
Pte	Milton	HAWORTH	10	Jul	1917
Signr	Arnold	HEAP	30	Aug	1917
Pte	Jesse	HEAP	20	May	1916
Pte	Walter	HEAP	17	Jan	1915
Pte	William	HEENEY	9	Apr	1918
Pte	A. E.	HEGARTY	13	Nov	1914
Lan Corp	Regd	HEWITT	16	Aug	1917
Lan Corp	J.	HEYS	6	Jul	1916
Pte	J.	HEYS	27	Sep	1918
Pte	Robert	HEYS	12	Oct	1916
Pte	John	HILL	1	Jun	1916
Pte	James	HITCHEN	3	Oct	1918
Pte	C.	HOLDEN	11	Mar	1917
Pte	Israel	HOLDEN	7	Jul	1916
Pte	J. H.	HOLDEN	21	Mar	1918
Sgt	Fred	HOLGATE	28	Apr	1917
Pte	Geo. Wm.	HOLLOWS	23	Mar	1918
Pte	H.	HOLT	7	Nov	1917
Pte	Hartley	HOLT	24	Aug	1918
Pte	John Aspin	HOLT	23	Sep	1918
Lan Corp	John E.	HOLT	25	Sep	1915
Pte	Percy	HOLT	27	May	1918
Lan Corp	J. W.	HORNE	20	Jul	1917
Gunner	Albert	HORNUNG	8	Aug	1917
Pte	J. W.	HORROCKS	14	Mar	1915
Pte	Percy	HORSFIELD	4	Oct	1917
Pte	George	HOWARTH	15	Jan	1917
Co Sgt Mjr	Rd. Lord	HOWARTH	26	Oct	****
Pte	James	HOWORTH	15	Jul	1916
Pte	G. H.	HUNT	28	Mar	1919
2nd Lieut	James	HUNT	16	Nov	1916
Pte	James	HUTCHINSON	23	Nov	1915
Pte	R. K.	HUTCHINSON	31	Jul	1917
Pte	Tom	INGHAM	30	Apr	1917
Pte	Francis	IRESON	3	May	1915
Pte	John	IRESON	18	Sep	1918
Driver	S. L.	ISHERWOOD	7	May	1917
Pte	Harper	JEFFERYS	13	Apr	1917
Pte	John Henry	JOHNSON	29	May	1917
Pte	Samuel Walter	JOHNSON	11	Sep	1915
Pte	Ernest	JONES	12	Oct	1914
Pte	George	JONES	9	Apr	1917
Pte	Thomas	JONES	17	Aug	1917
Pte	William	JORDAN	17	May	1917
Pte	W.R.	JORDON	16	Oct	1917
Pte	Thomas	KELLY	10	Apr	1916
Pte	Walter	KERSHAW	26	Mar	1918
2nd Lieut	Rowland	KITCHEN	9	Apr	1918
Pte	Harry	KNOWLES	21	Sep	1915
Pte	John	KNOWLES	19	Apr	1917
Corp	John	LAMBERT	28	Dec	1917
Pte	William	LAMBERT	2	May	1915
Pte	Charles	LANDAMORE	10	Aug	1916
Pte	Herbert	LAW	18	Sep	1918
Lan Corp	Wm.	LESTER	11	Apr	1917
Pte	Paul	LEYLAND	21	Mar	1918
Pte	John	LONG	26	Aug	1918
Pte	T. E.	LONGSTAFF	19	Aug	1916
Gunner	Ed	LONSDALE	18	Jun	1918
Pte	Harry	LONSDALE	9	Aug	1917
Pte	John	LONSDALE	11	Apr	1918
Gunner	George W.	LORD	13	Apr	1917
Pte	John	LORD	16	Aug	1917
Pte	Joseph	LORD	8	Dec	1916
Pte	Wilfred	LOVE	9	Oct	1917
Pte	John	LUND	4	Mar	1917
Pte	Robert	MACKEY	20	Jul	1917
Gunner	Walter	MADEN	12	Jul	1917
Pte	William	MANNING	31	Jul	1917
Sergt	John Hy	MARSHALL	9	Oct	1917
Pte	Frederick	MARTIN	23	Oct	1917
Pte	Michael	McCORMACK	31	Oct	1914
Pte	W.	McCORMICK		Aug	1916
Pte	Walter	McDERMOT	6	Mar	1919
Pte	W.	MAC DONALD	9	Sep	1916
Gunner	J. H.	McDONDALD	18	Aug	1915
Pte	James	McMURRAY	15	Sep	1916
Pte	Harold	MEADOWCROFT	9	Jul	1918
Pte	George	MEEKS	26	Oct	1917
Pte	William	MEEKS	3	Feb	1918
Lan Corp	W.	MILLER	4	Jun	1915
Pte	Harry	MOORE	14	Jul	1916
Gunner	John	MOSES	30	Oct	1917
Pte	R. G.	MURGATROYD	17	May	1917
Pte	J. E.	NEIL	5	Aug	1917
Pte	James	NERNEY	9	Oct	1917
Pte	George	NIGHTINGALE	1	Apr	1917
Pte	Ernest	NUTTALL	31	Oct	1916
Pte	Norman	NUTTALL	2	Apr	1917
Pte	R. H.	NUTTALL	18	Dec	1917
Pte	Thomas	O'BRIEN	26	Nov	1915
Pte	James	ODDIE	9	Apr	1918
Pte	Dan	OLDFIELD	24	Dec	1916
Pte	J. R.	ORMEROD	14	Oct	1918
Pte	Walter	ORMEROD	2	Jan	1917
Pte	Fred	OVERTON	11	Sep	1917
Pte	Ernest	PALMER	14	Nov	1916
Gunner	Walter	PALMER	12	Jul	1917
Pte	Thomas	PARKER	21	Mar	1918
Pte	Milton	PARTINGTON	4	Oct	1917
Pte	Felix	PAYNE	1	Sep	1917
Pte	W.	PAYNE	7	Jun	1917
Driver	W. H.	PAYNE	16	Feb	1919
Pte	Peter W.	PEACOCK	23	Oct	1918
Pte	Arthur	PEEL	19	Apr	1917
Pte	A. H.	PHILIPSON	25	Jul	1918
Gunner	W. H. H.	PHILIPSON	4	Nov	1918
Pte	Will	PICKUP	18	Oct	1916
Pte	J. P.	PILKINGTON	30	Mar	1916
Pte	Wellington	PILKINGTON	27	Dec	****
Pte	Herbert	PILLING	18	Oct	1916
Sergt	James	PINNINGTON	30	Jul	1918
Sapper	J. R.	PLACE	14	Feb	1919
Pte	William	PLACE	13	May	1918
Pte	Edgar	PLANE	25	Apr	1917
Pte	Absolom	POLLARD	7	Jul	1916
Pte	Ben	POOLEY	30	May	1917
Pte	Robert A.	PROCTOR	1	Jan	1918
Pte	George Smith	PYLE	13	Jun	1915
Pte	Edmund	RAMSBOTTOM	11	Jul	1915
Pte	C. W.	RAYNOR	27	Aug	1918
Pte	William	READER	10	Feb	1917
Pte	G. W.	REDHEAD	18	Apr	1916
Lan Corp	Fred	RIDEOUGH *	16	Sep	****
Lan Corp	Fred	RIDEHALGH **	16	Sep	1916
Pte	Alan	RIGG	31	Jul	1917
Pte	Greenwood	ROTHWELL	20	Nov	****
Lan Sgt	J.	ROWAN	14	Jul	1916
Lan Corp	J. T.	RUSHTON	10	Apr	1917
Pte	J. H.	SAGAR	9	May	1917
Bombr	Harry	SANDERSON	4	Aug	1917
Pte	Ed	SCHOFIELD	2	May	1917
Pte	William Robert	SCHOFIELD	25	Apr	1915
	Frank	SCHOLES	8	Oct	1918
Pte	Hubert	SCHOLES	28	Jul	1918
Pte	J. E.	SCOTT	11	Apr	1916
Pte	Ernest	SHARPE	10	Mar	1918
Pte	J. T.	SHAW	12	Oct	1918
Pte	James	SHAW	22	Mar	1918
Pte	James C.	SHAW	1	Jul	1916
Pte	W.	SHUTTLEWORTH	27	Sep	1918
Pte	Samuel	SIMISTER	25	Jul	1916
Corp	Frank	SLATER	25	Sep	1915
2nd Lieut	Henry	SMITH	19	Oct	1918
Corp	R.	SMITH	11	Apr	1917
Pte	Frank	SPENCER	13	Sep	1917
Pte	Fred	SPENCER	26	Sep	1917
Pte	James	STANSFIELD	23	Sep	1917
Pte	Fred	STOTT	4	Dec	1917
Pte	William	STOTT	24	Jul	1916
Pte	Thomas	STRINGER	19	May	1917
Pte	James Albert	SUTCLIFFE	17	May	****
Pte	George Robt.	TANN	12	Apr	1918
Pte	John	TATTERSALL	23	Oct	1916
Pte	T. A.	TATTERSALL	30	Aug	1918
Lan Corp	Wilfred H.	TATTERSALL	9	Feb	1917
Lan Corp	A.	TAYLOR	9	Oct	1916
Pte	H. A.	TAYLOR	27	Jul	1917
Pte	Harold	TAYLOR	24	Aug	1917
Pte	J.	TAYLOR	17	Feb	1917
Pte	J. J.	TAYLOR	18	Sep	1916
Pte	J. W.	TAYLOR	13	Oct	1916
Pte	Jordan	TAYLOR	29	May	1917
Pte	Samuel	TAYLOR	4	Oct	1917
Gunner	Thomas	TAYLOR	21	Apr	1918
Pte	Walter	TAYLOR	10	Oct	1917
Pte	J. B.	TEASDALE	12	Apr	1918
Pte	Harry	TETLOW	10	Jul	1916
Pte	John	THOBURN	7	Aug	1916
Sergt	James	THOMPSON	24	Mar	1918
Pte	W.	THOMPSON	24	Jun	1916
Pte	W. H.	THORNLEY	11	Oct	1917
Pte	Robert B.	THYNE	17	Feb	1918
Pte	A. E.	TIDDY	3	Nov	1918
Pte	W.	TIDDY	2	Apr	1918
Drummer		TIMPERLY	1	Jul	1916
Pte	Wilfred	TODD	21	Mar	1918
Pte	George	TOLWORTHY	28	Mar	1918
Pte	James	TOLWORTHY	31	Oct	1917
Pte	Francis	TOMLINSON	27	Jul	1916
Pte	Fred	TOMLINSON	27	Jul	1917
Pte	James	TOMLINSON	8	Oct	1917
Sgt	James W.	TOMLINSON	31	Jul	1917
Pte	Willie	TOMLINSON	23	Apr	1917
Pte	George	TOOTELL	6	Sep	1918
Pte	F.	TRICKETT	29	Oct	1918
Pte	David	TRIPPIER	28	Mar	1918
Pte	John	TRIPPIER	27	May	1917
Gunner	Milton	TRIPPIER	12	Jun	1917
Pte	W.	TRIPPIER	2	Aug	1916
Gunner	James	TURNER	24	Jun	1917
Driver	Robert Henry	TURNER	16	Aug	1915
Pte	Herbert	TWISSE	22	Sep	1917
Pte	Richard	UTTLEY	1	Jul	1916
Pte	Douglas	WARWICK	30	Sep	1918
Pte	Louis	WARWICK	9	May	1915
Pte	Wilfred	WARWICK	11	Nov	1914
Pte	Alan	WATERSON	30	Apr	1918
Gunner	T. E.	WATKINS	22	Jul	1916
A Bombdr	J. W.	WATSON	18	Sep	1918
Pte	Harry	WEBDEN	12	Oct	1916
Gunner	Charles	WESLEY	6	Sep	1916
Corp	John	WHITHAM	9	May	1915
Lan Corp	Gordon	WHITTAKER	30	Jul	1915
Pte	John Ed.	WHITTAKER	14	Jan	1918
Pte	R.	WHITTAKER	3	May	1917
Gunner	Robert	WHITTAKER	22	Jul	1916
Pte	Harold	WILKINSON	2	May	1917
Pte	J. A.	WILKINSON	9	Oct	1917
Pte	Ernest	WILSON	10	Apr	1917
Pte	T.	WILSON	5	Feb	1917
R.N.V.R.	Charles R.	WISE	28	Oct	1918
Pte	John	WOOD	27	Jan	1918
Pte	Percy	WOOD	27	May	1918
Pte	Edward	WOODWORTH	12	Jul	1915
Pte	John	WRIGHT	3	May	1917
Sapper	Leslie B.	WYLD	6	May	1917
Pte	David	YOUNG	21	Jun	1916
Gunner	F. G.	YOUNG	2	Jul	1916

*	This entry is believed to be an error and that the true entry is listed below.
**	It is believed that this is a replacement for the entry above as no records can be found for the above entry but this one is in the Commonwealth War Grave Commissions listings and is also on the stained glass window at Newchurch Bethlehem Unitarian Church.