BAGSHAW, Arthur

 Щ R/8104 Rifleman 1 Bn Kings Royal Rifle Corps. (Belper News 26/5/1916; ‘confirming his death, after being reported wounded and missing about 12 months ago. KIA during a bayonet charge at Festubert on 15/5/1915. He enlisted on 12/12/1914 and sent to France on 15/3/1915. The youngest son of the late Thomas Bagshaw of Harpur Lees, Hathersage’). Appears on Le Touret Memorial, France, Panel 32/33. He also appears on another memorial according to the inscription on Hathersage War Memorial.

b 1882 Abney. A Quarryman. 1891C living at Harper Lees, parents Thomas Bagshaw and Millicent Bagshaw. Moved to Hathersage as a boy and lived at Station Road, Hathersage, but by 1911C he was not in Hathersage. He later moved to Bacup Lancs where his wife Sarah Edith Bagshaw was living when he died and on his war gratuity payments in 1916 & 1919. N of K; J Bagshaw of 3 Waverley Ave, Thurcroft. Frank Priestley of Sheffield Road was also a relative.