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Old 08-07-2009, 09:23   #27
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Re: Oswaldtwistle War Memorial

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Originally Posted by Retlaw View Post
One way to find out is to go through the 1911 census for Oswaldtwistle looking for German names, might take you a while though.

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It was pretty much a speculative question, Retlaw, and it would certainly take massive time and effort to undertake such an exercise and that would only be the start. There was just a passing possibility that you may have picked up something in the local papers from the period and immeadiatly afterwards. I know that in Kings College Chapel, Cambridge, there is a German list (ex-students) next to the British dead (which includes the name of Rupert Brooke) and there is another example I have seen but at the moment I just can't remember where.
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