Regiment: Royal Air Force

Prime, Herbert Leslie –

Son of Mr. H. and Mrs. Ellen Prime, of 6, May Street, Haulgh, Bolton, Lancashire. Formerly Private, 6th Bn., Lancashire Fusiliers. Discharged to commission in the Royal Air Force 01/06/1918. Posted as missing and prisoner of war 05/10/1918 and subsequently confirmed died of wounds.

Probert, Frank –

Of 10, Brook Street, Charlestown, Pendleton, Lancashire.

Ramsden, Samuel –

Son of Joseph and Margaret Ramsden, of 641, Tonge Moor Road, Bolton, Lancashire. Formery Private, 4th Bn., Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Gazetted Second Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps in November 1917. Wounded 11/04/1918.

Ranoe (Rance), Frank –

Son of John Charles and Elizabeth Ellen Ranoe (nee Lindsay), of 14, Mount Pleasant Street, Horwich, Lancashire. Formerly an apprentice fitter at the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company’s Horwich Loco Works. Formerly Corporal 1610, 1st/4th Bn., Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Wounded 15/06/1915 at Festubert. Re-enlisted in Royal Flying Corps 05/12/1915. Transferred to Royal Air Force on formation 01/04/1918. NOTE: also recorded as Frank RANCE.

Ratcliffe, William Gordon –

Son of Robert and Helen Ratcliffe, of Rivington, Lancashire. Formerly employed at Horwich Locomotive Works.

Rawsthorne, George –

Son of Sarah Jane Rawsthorne, of 216, Tonge Moor Road, Tonge Moor, Bolton, Lancashire. An old boy of Bolton Grammar School (1907-1911). Formerly Private 3374 / 240887, 5th Bn., Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, transferred to Royal Flying Corps 10/10/1917, and to Royal Air Force on formation 01/04/1918.

Ridyard, Greenwood Gee –

Son of Reginald Ridyard, and of Dora Maud Ridyard, of Kearsley, Lancashire.

Riley, Jack –

Son of John and Hilda Riley, of Heaton, Bolton, Lancashire.

Riley, Alfred –

Husband of Bertha Riley, of 14, Britain Street, London Road, Manchester, Lancashire.

Roberts, Norman –

Formerly Sergeant 106048, Royal Engineers. Commissioned 05/07/1917 to Royal Flying Corps. Transferred to Royal Air Force 01/04/1918.

Roberts, Robert Arthur –

Son of Robert John and May Roberts, of Barton-on-Irwell, Lancashire.

Robinson, Thomas Sprowell –

Only son of Mary A. Robinson, of Orchard Farm, Carleton, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, and the late Thomas Robinson, formerly of “Somerville”, Deane, Bolton, Lancashire, and formerly of Petrograd, Russia. Formerly 113964, Royal Army Medical Corps, and formerly 51835, 6th Reserve Bn., Lancashire Fusiliers. Died from injuries sustained in an aeroplane accident. Recorded under Lancashire Fusiliers on SDGW, and Royal Air Force on CWGC.

Robinson, Fred –

Son of William and Anna Robinson; husband of Doris Robinson, of Bolton, Lancashire. Serving in HMS Illustrious.

Rogerson, Harry –

Son of Henry and Mary Louisa Rogerson, of 46, Ashworth Lane, Astley Bridge, Bolton, Lancashire. An old boy of Bolton Grammar School (1906-1910). Formerly Second Lieutenant, 1st/4th Bn., Loyal North Lancashire Regiment; Formerly Royal Flying Corps, transferred to Royal Air Force 01/04/1918. Wounded 02/01/1916. Reported missing June 1917 and subsequently confirmed captured prisoner of war.

Roscoe, Arthur –

Son of Charles and Bertha Roscow, of Bolton, Lancashire.

Rothwell, James –

Son of Thomas and Mary Alice Rothwell, of Church Road, Halliwell, Bolton, Lancashire; uncle of Annie Rothwell, of 2, Chapman Street, Bolton, Lancashire. Formerly Royal Flying Corps, transferred to Royal Air Force on formation 01/04/1917. Suffered tuberculosis of the lung resulting in discharge. Died 11/03/1924 aged 39 and interred 14/03/1924 at St. Peter’s (Halliwell) Churchyard.

Rushton, Charles Sidney –

Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Rushton, of Morden Grange, Haulgh, Bolton, Lancashire; husband of Amy L. Rushton (nee Wells). Of 15, Chadwick Street, Haulgh, Bolton, Lancashire. Formerly Royal Flying Corps, transferred to Royal Air Force on formation 01/04/1918.

Bolton Remembers

An online reference documenting Bolton’s war dead