Month: October 2016

✟ ≠ Pte Y & L (wounded by sniper DC 25/12/1915). 15237 L Cpl, A Coy, 13th Bn Yorkshire Regt. KIA 22/3/1918 at St Leger, buried Arras Memorial, Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery, Arras. fought in Egypt and Gallipoli, wounded three times. b 1886 Sheffield. A clerk, brother in law Benjamin Parkinson, Castleton Road, Hathersage. All evidence suggests he lived a nomadic life.  Probate record of 23 November 1918 states he was living at 5 Crossland Road Hathersage at the time of his death, when his effects of £3,407.18.1d were left to his brother Thomas Bevan Fox.  No reports of his death in the Sheffield or Derbyshire newspapers, but according to his Army records he enlisted in Scarborough and was living in Bristol at the time, (this seems to fit in with his “nomadic“ lifestyle). His father was also Charles James Fox b 1855/56 in China to British parents, mother Emma Carr b 1855/56 Hull. 1881C living in Sheffield. His father died Sheffield 1890, consequently C J and his siblings were shipped off around the country to various relatives and orphanages. His siblings (all born Sheffield were, Joseph Glenn (ended up in Lincolnshire) Thomas Bevan, a pharmacist in London, who was named as CJ’s next of kin on the Register of Soldier’s Effects, and Susan Eliza who married Benjamin Parkinson, three of whose four children being born in Hathersage, Benjamin J – 1912, William – 1914, Charles A – 1915, and Thomas Glen-  b1911 Doncaster.

Pte 21653 1st Garrison Bn, Manchester Regt. He had a few issues with drunkenness, posted to Singapore in later stages of the war and stayed a soldier untill March 1920. b 1878 Hathersage. 1911C at North Manchester School, a caretaker. His mother was Mary Wiggett, b Hathersage 1858. Quite a few of the family Moved to Canada.

Before WW1 he had already served in the Army Dragoons in South Africa, then Pte 4694 3rd Coldstream Guards, L/Cpl P5267 Military Mounted Police Corps. (“Narrow Escape” Sheffield Independent 15/10/1915). b 1882 Sheffield,1911C a police officer in Sheffield living with mother-in-law; Millicent Barber (née Higginbottom) b Hathersage 1847.

Pte 322650 ASC Mechanical Transport.  b 1891 Leeds, 1911C a butcher in Leeds, his mother was Frances (Fanny) Richmond, b Hathersage 1867.

1915 Sgt 21063 11Bn Canadian Expeditionary Force, Later Capt 25 Bn Royal Fusiliers (details; Cambridge Alumni). b 1878 Newferry, Cheshire.  1901C in Wales a theological student. Ordained Priest but 1908 disappears, then after WW1 returns to Priesthood. Brother of Charles Stuart Ford above. Their mother was Mary Jane Turner b1844 Hathersage. Her father, Isaac B Turner was appointed to the Curacy of Hathersage (20/5/1843 Oxford Chronicle).

A serving soldier prior to WW1, 8 years Royal Scots Grays, 5 years Bedfordshire Regt. Later Capt Ottawa Highlanders, wounded. b1879 Newferry, Cheshire. Brother of Roger Anson Ford below. Their mother was Mary Jane Turner b1844 Hathersage. Her father, Isaac B Turner was appointed to the Curacy of Hathersage (20/5/1843 Oxford Chronicle).

Pte 18635 9th Y & L.  (SDT 16/7/1916; formerly resided at Barnfield Cottages, Hathersage, wounded. His arm was shattered by a shell). Awarded DCM and discharged 12/11/1917. Quarryman, b1882/1883 Liverpool. 1909 Married at Hathersage, Lily Schofield (Hallam) b1885 d1932, daughter of Selina Schofield who later married James Hallam. 1911C William and Lily are living at Rotherham Road, Sheffield.

Capt “ L“ Signal Bn RE.  b 1886 Norton. 1911C a telephone engineer.  A true giant of electrical engineering, his books are still in print, and his portrait is in the National Gallery. In 1903 he was assistant to Athol Capron, (father of John Theodore Capron, above), President of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and International Electrical Commission. Percy must have lived in the village as his sister Violet was born Hathersage in 1895?

ă Joined up for four years in the Derbyshire Yeomanry Territorial Force, at Heeley in Feb 1912, (Heeley was then in Derbyshire) before moving to Garner House Farm, Shatton, in Dec that year. Promoted L/Cpl then Cpl in 1914 and was 6 months in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. On his return he was admitted to Cardiff, Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital for 18 days with a less severe form of Typhoid. He then was posted from the 1/1 to 1/3 Regt of the Derbyshire Yeomanry, and in Feb 1916 to the 3 Mounted Brigade. The 1 Derbyshire Yeomanry fought in the very harsh Salonica (now Thessalonica) campaign on the Macedonia/Greek/ Bulgarian border. On 26/6/1917 while still a Cpl he was awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous gallantry in the field,  and was twice ‘Mentioned in Despatches.’ He then served in the UK until Feb 1918, when attached to the Scots Greys he became Riding Master at the Cadet School at Netheravon, Wiltshire. He was granted temporary 2/Lt commission in the Reserve Regt of the Dragoons in August that year, after already serverd nearly six years. WO 374/21232.

On Absent Voters list of 1918 he is  shown as; 75106 Cadet L.M.M., B Squad. No 1 Cav School, but this could be out of date information. He was gazetted out of the Service in Feb 1919, still single, his permanent address given as Garner House Farm, Shatton. He is listed on the Shatton side of Hope War Memorial, recognising those who served.

b 1891 Norton, one of eight children and eldest son of Maurice and Mary Ellen (nee Ortton). 1901C living at Wellhead Road, Heeley, Norton parish. 1911C; living and working on Carfield Farm, Heeley, which has since been built over apart from a small area of allotments. Brother of Edgar Dungworth, above. In 1919 he married Alice Dearnaley at Worksop, and later moved from Garner House to Callow Farm, Highlow. They had two sons, Donald and Leslie, and daughters Margaret and Dorothy Alice. Donald qualified as a ‘Vet’ and had a distinguished career in Canada, Bristol (UK) and University of California before he died in Canada in 2005. Leslie lived at Fersby Hall Farm, near Conisborough.

Dorothy married John James Jewitt, but was tragically killed in a motor accident, together with her daughter, Alison Margaret Darnley on Ringinglow Road, Sheffield on 7/10/1974.  Lawrence had a cavalry regimental tattoo on his lower arm in the form of a horseshoe. In WW2 Lawrence formed a troop of Home Guard mounted on his horses, to stop them being taken for the Army! He judged several times at the ‘Horse of the Year Show’ at Olympia, London. He died in December 1965. His sister Rose Ellen married Arthur Singleton, (possibly related to the Hathersage buttons factory ‘Singletons’?).

ă Pte 58401 Leics Regt. On the Absent Voters list of 1918 he was shown as residing at Offerton, but without any  military information of active service on his records. Possibly invalided out as not fit for service?. He is listed on the Shatton side of Hope War Memorial, recognising those who served, but no other evidence of his military involvement has been found.  b 27 Sept 1896 Norton. 1911C, worked at Carfield Farm, Heeley as did his brother Lawrence Dungworth. Edgar emigrated to Canada in 1924.