Month: October 2016

⚜ 202280 Pte 1/4 Y & L, then 8 & 9 Y & L. Demobbed 22/2/1919.

b 1898 The Dale, Hathersage, 1911C living at The Dale, a hackle pin grinder. Related to Lawrence and Edgar Dungworth (their grand fathers were brothers).

ă  T.T.O. 4082 Pte Army Veterinary Corps.  b 1870 Whitwell, Yorks. 1911C living in London, a drapers assistant. He lied on the census form about his age, (says b 1881) otherwise he would have been too old to enlist. His address on the 1918 Absent Voters list is, Main Road, Hathersage.

⚜ ă  Щ 27363 15 West Yorks. Wounded just before the end of the war on 5/10/1918.

b 1892 Norton. Living at Bank Cottage, Main Road, Hathersage, at the time of enlistment. His address is shown as Besom Lane, Hathersage on the 1918 Absent Voters list. He had a younger brother Stanley b 1895, but no military record found for him.

1912, signed on in the Navy for 12 years, K16172 Stoker. Invalided out, Feb 1915.   b 1892 at Froggatt, son of John Dronfield and Ann Elizabeth Burns. 1911C living at Eyam, a finisher at slipper factory. Married Ellen (Nellie) Russell, Jan 1917 at Sheffield and went to live at Bamford, but by 1919 was living at 4 Fern Royd, Hathersage, a ‘colliery fireman’.  His son Harold b 1918, went to USA, and his two daughters, Joan b 1919 and Barbara b 1928, were all born Hathersage. He died 1954 at Stanage Edge, Outseats. His daughter Barbara married Les Bradwell, and lived and raised their family in Hathersage.

✟ ≠ 662 Pte 8 Bn Canadian Infantry. K.I.A. 28/4/1917 Vimy Ridge, while a stretcher bearer. Buried; Orchard Dump Cemetery, Arleux-en-Gobelle, Pass de Calais, France. Posthumously awarded MM for bravery on 18/5/1917. Full details; Canadian Great War Project and the family story on ‘Find A Grave’.

b 29/12/1892 Barnfield, Hathersage. 1901C the family is in Norfolk. In 1914 the family move to Keewatin, Ontario Canada. His brother George Drew (b Rugby), also served.

Note Sept 2015; came across C Drew KIA DC 5/5/1917 formerly of Bamford, but there is no C Drew from Bamford that fits (the only one was born in 1902) However it does fit our John Drew. Maybe C Drew was another brother? The C Drew mentioned as killed from Bamford  is in fact Charles Austin Gathergood, apparently for some reason he changed his name to Drew (which was his mother’s maiden name)

attested 1916; 802802 Trooper, Canadian Army Veterinary Corps 141st Bn (later absorbed into 18th Res Bn, according to the manifest of The Minnekahda). Returned to Canada 1919. (details ‘find a grave’) b 1895 Rugby, Warwicks. Brother of John Drew, below.

✟ ≠ Originally 36 Labour Bn Royal Fusiliers, to 42378 Pte 13 Bn Notts & Derbys., and transferring to 116494 195 Coy Labour Corps. Killed 7/8/1917. Buried Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium.

b 1877 Darley Dale, living at time of enlistment at Barnfield Cottage, Hathersage, a stone cutter.

Pte 748036 5th Canada Mounted Rifles. D of W 9/4/1917 Écoivres Military Cemetery, near Arras.  b 1895 West Bromwich. 1911C in Canada. His mother was Lucy Hudson, b 1873 Hathersage. In the 1871C her father Joseph was proprietor of the Millstone Inn, Hathersage. She had four children who all went off to Canada in 1910, although earlier in 1910 the youngest child Norman was in the Hospital wing of the Workhouse in West Derby. Father Frederick nowhere to be found. 1911C mother, age 38; Inmate Walton on the Hill Workhouse, Liverpool.

✟ ≠ 27293 West Kents (Queens Own West Kent Regiment), 10 Bn (The Buffs).  K.I.A. 10/10/1918 and is buried in Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle D’Armentieres, Pas de Calais Nord. France.

Medal record indicates he also served in Palestine. He is also remembered on a Dover War memorial.  b1885 Sheffield, son of Edward and Selina Dodson. 1911C “The Gables” Hathersage Booths. The family originated from Darnall, Sheffield. He married Dorothy May Dodson of 7 Evelyn Court, Lansdown Terrace, Cheltenham. Joseph was late Balliol (Oxford), Liverpool, and Dover Colleges. brothers Joseph, Charles, Henry and James all studied at Oxford. (Joseph and Charles became School masters).

✟ ≠ 2/Lt  8 (Isle of Wight Rifles) Princess Beatrice Bn Territorials,  Hampshire Regt.  K.I.A. 27/6/1917 in France. Grave in Lebucquiere Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais. France.

b1887 Sheffield. 1911C, son of Edward and Selina Dodson, “The Gables” Hathersage Booths, but living at Sheffield Park, Sheffield by 1917. The family originated from Darnall,  brothers Joseph, Charles, Henry and James all studied at Oxford. (Joseph and Charles became School masters).