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Surname: RUCASTLE
Forename(s): Isaac
Place of Birth: Low Bentham, Yorkshire
Service No: 37174
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 7th (Service) Battalion
Division: 19th (Western) Division
Age: 31
Date of Death: 1917-06-10
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: VI. E. 12.
CWGC Cemetery: WYTSCHAETE MILITARY CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: HIGH BENTHAM, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: LOW BENTHAM, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Isaac Rucastle was the son of William and Emma Rucastle, née Stables. William was born at Watermillock, Cumberland and Emma at Martindale, Westmorland.
1891 Bentham, Yorkshire Census: The Terrace - Isaac Ruecastle [sic], aged 4 years, born Low Bentham, son of William and Emma Ruecastle.
1901 Low Bentham, Yorkshire Census: The Terrace - Isaac Rucastle, aged 14 years, born Bentham, son of William and Emma Rucastle.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Isaac Rucastle, 37174, South Lancashire Regiment.
A short biography of Isaac is included in: ‘Bentham’s Part in the Great War 1914-18’ by Allan and Marilyn Hartley (2019).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
RUECASTLE, Isaac, [Bentham], aged 31, South Lancs. Regt., killed in action June 10, 1917.
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Private Isaac RUCASTLE
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 19th (Western) Division
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Wytschaete Military Cemetery
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Courtesy of Allan Hartley, High Bentham
The High & Low Bentham men who gave their lives
Top row (l-r): Rfn Ernest Knight Newhouse, Pte John Thornber, Reverend Theodore Bayley Hardy, Pte Richard Wilson, Pte Maurice Richard Bolton, Lieut John Barclay Clibborn, Pte William Throup, Pte Richard Wilcock Carr, A/Cpl William Robinson, Pte James Auton, Pte William Savage. Third row (l-r): L/Cpl David Percival Dixon, Pte John Emmott, Pte Francis Richard Townson, Pte John Adamthwaite, Pte Robert Carter, L/Cpl John Hutchinson, Pte Alfred Edward Gunn, Pte Ezra Stephenson, Pte Edwin Rawlinson Smith, Pte Richard Wearing, Lieut Basil William Ramsbotton. Third row (l-r): Spr Robert Clark, Act L/Cpl Thomas Wilcock, Cpl William Carr, Pte Lawrence Lancelot Dowbiggin, Pte Edward Magoolagan, Pte Isaac Rucastle, Pte Henry Taylor, Cpl Edward Ramskill, L/Cpl Edward Walton Briscoe, Pte Joseph Jackson, Gnr Ernest Wilcock. Fourth row (l-r): Capt Donald Morrison, Sgt Arthur Dean Blackburn, Pte James William Bell, Pte Leonard Nelson, L/Cpl John Edward Leeming, L/Cpl Albert Lister, Pte Percy Preston Whitfield, Cpl Tom Harry Smith, Cpl Thomas Walker Sanderson, Sgt William Patrick Tobin, Pte (Signaller) W. Wilkinson.
Courtesy of the artist, David Hartnup
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29 June 1917
RUECASTLE – June 10th 1917, killed in action in France, Pte. Isaac Ruecastle, South Lancs. Regiment, son of the late Mr. Wm. Ruecastle, huntsman, Bentham, aged 31 years.
29 June 1917
LOWER BENTHAM SOLDIER KILLED IN ACTION
Mrs. Ruecastle, of The Terrace, received official news from the Record Office, Shrewsbury, that her son, Pte. Isaac Ruecastle, of the South Lancashire Regiment, was killed in action on the tenth of June. Pte. Ruecastle was a twin son of the late well-known huntsman, Mr. William Ruecastle. He was thirty-one years of age and had been in France ten months.
29 June 1917
LOWER BENTHAM – Memorial Service
Immediately after evensong on Sunday at the Parish Church, the Rector conducted a memorial service for two of the village heroes who have made the supreme sacrifice, viz: Gunner Ernest Wilcock and Pte. Isaac Ruecastle. There was a crowded congregation and the service was most impressive.
06 July 1917
LOWER BENTHAM – PRIVATE ISAAC RUECASTLE
The photograph is that of Private Isaac Ruecastle, South Lancs. Regiment, son of Mrs. Ruecastle, The Terrace, Lower Bentham, who, as reported last week, was killed in action in France on June 10th. Deceased was a twin son of the late Mr. Wm. Ruecastle, the well-known huntsman, and was 31 years of age.
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29 June 1917
RUECASTLE – Killed in action in France, June 10th, Pte. Isaac Ruecastle, youngest son of Mrs. Ruecastle and the late Wm. Ruecastle, of Bentham.
29 June 1917
BENTHAM – PRIVATE I. RUECASTLE KILLED
News has reached his widowed mother, Mrs. Ruecastle, widow of the late William Ruecastle, who for many yeas was the old huntsman for the Vale of Lune Harriers at Bentham, that her youngest son, Pte. Isaac Ruecastle, was killed in action on June 10th last.
The following letter has been received from his chaplain at the front:– “I am writing to express to you my very great sympathy in the loss of your son, Pte. Isaac Ruecastle. He was killed during the recent great advances, and it will be a consolation to you to know that he gave his life to help win so great a victory. Perhaps the time when the greatest bravery was needed was the time when we were holding the trenches recently taken from the Germans and during their heavy bombardment. He lies buried near where he fell, and a cross is being put over his grave by the regiment. Assuring you of my greatest sympathy.”
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