Month: October 2016

BELL, John

✟ ≠  Pioneer, 67426, 423 Field Coy R.E. Killed 31/7/1917. Remembered at the Menin Gate, Ypres.Belgium. b 1895 Hathersage. 1901C in Lowesoft, Norfolk & 1911C; in Coedffranc Wales. Father was George Bell, a railway labourer and his mother was Keturah Wilson from the Hathersage Booths (b 1873). Brother of Dick Bell above.

BELL, Dick

45456 Pte South Wales Borderers, caught Influenza late 1918 and as a result was discharged early.

b 1899 Neath, brother of John Bell below, father was George Bell, a railway labourer and his mother was Keturah Wilson from the Hathersage Booths (b 1873).

BEESLEY, Richard Douglas

2/Lt South Lancs Regt. Capt Indian Army Reserve of Officers sent to France in Nov 1917. b 1895 Sheffield. 1901C living with his mother with his uncle, Frank James, at Baulk Lane, Hathersage.

BEECH, Lawrence Walker

ă L/Bdr 145065. 62 Res Bn, R H & R F A. b 1880 Sheffield. 1891C at Bluecoat Charity School. 1911C living in Sheffield, clerk to the Education Committee. Wife; Aurelie. Shown as living on Crossland Road, Hathersage on 1918 Absent Voters list.

BEDFORD, Harold

ă  59443 Prince of Wales West Yorks Regt, rejected because of poor eyesight, later conscripted to 8166 Army Pay Corps. b1882 Sheffield. 1918 Absent voters address; Roslyn Road, Hathersage. Played cricket for Hathersage.

BEARDSHAW, Francis Henry

ă  201950 Pte. 5 Royal Warwicks. Released from Military Service after only a few months due to ill health and placed on the T.A. list. b 1882 New Malden Surrey. 1911C living at Birmingham. Moved to Hathersage 9/4/1918; a representative for family firm of J E Beardshaw, Baltic Works, Sheffield. 1918 absent voters address; Hill View. (Station Road) Hathersage.

 

BATES, John

✟ ≠ Щ   478149 Spr 456  Field Coy R.E. Died of wounds 18/10/1917 age 22. (DC 20/11/1917 reported wounded & missing.)  (DC 24/11/1917; ‘died from wounds at a clearing station in France. He has been on active service for 2½ years. His grandmother was Mrs Darwent Bank Top, Hathersage’). He is buried in Nine Elms British Cemetery, West Vlaaderen, Belgium. Nearly all the burial plots there were used by the 3rd Australian & 44th Casualty Clearing Station when they moved to Poperinge Sept 1917, until Dec 1917, for the Battle of Ypres. He is also remembered on the Darwent family grave in Hathersage Churchyard. b 1896 Hathersage.  Mother was Minnie Darwent b1873. He was the grandson of Samuel Cocker who died 10/11/1908 age 67.   1911C living in Doncaster, a crane driver.