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Private Thomas Rawsthorne 1681
1st/9th Kings Liverpool
Regiment
The fourth son of Mr. Peter
Rawsthorne of Elm Place Ormskirk.
He was killed in action near
Ypres, in Belgium on Sunday the 9th of May at the age of twenty.
Thomas had been in the
Territorials for four years previously and was one of four of Mr. Rawsthorne’s
sons to serve in the Great War.
Elm Place, although on the
outskirts of Ormskirk is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Bickerstaffe.
Commemoration can be found at the Le Touret Memorial in
France panel 6,7, and 8. This is on the D171 between Neuve Chapelle and Bethune.
