Month: October 2016

Д  (DC 28/1/1922 listed among Methodist Church Members who had served), but no military information discovered. b 1886 Hathersage. 1911C at Bank Top, Hathersage, a millstone dresser, living with his widowed mother Millicent Cocker Darwent (b 1859 Hathersage), Brother to Minnie Darwent b 1874. (See John Bates above), and Charles (above), brother-in-law to Charles Burkinshir (b 1893 Dore) and sister Kate (b 1882 Hathersage). 1912 marries Amy Amelia Long In Knaresborough, dies 1931 Wharfedale. From about 1912 the family were living in Harrogate according to relatives.

ß ă  Щ  1674499 L/Cpl 378 H S (Home Service) Labour Coy. 1918 Absent Voter’s list address given as; Bank Top, Hathersage. b 1876 Hathersage. Parents; Samuel and Millicent Cocker Darwent. 1891C at Bank Top, Hathersage. 1911C living School Lane, Hathersage, a gardener. Brother to Minnie Darwent b 1874. (See John Bates above), and John William Darwent (below).

Д  (DC 28/1/1922 listed among Methodist Church Members who had served).  ă  Pte Tractor Depot A.S.C. On 1918 Absent Voter’s list his address given as; 5 Fern Royd, Hathersage. Wife; Amey. (Possibly b 1891 Shatton?). (Could this be Pte Dalton of A coy 5 Volunteer (Hathersage) Battalion who attended King A D Funeral Nov 1918?)

Groom Sgt RASC No 3026.  b1892 Derby, 1911C at Derby, his mother was Mary Bolton (Boulton) b Hathersage 1853. She is on 1861/1871 censuses.

Application for exemption – rejected, and he finally reported for duty 8/8/1917. 340378 Spr R.E.. Inland Waterways and Docks Division. b 1877 born at the Hathersage Vicarage as his father Charles was Vicar until 1910. Among his professions listed were; writer, waiter and professional photographer. 1911C living at Worcester.

Capt Royal Defence Corps, which was formed from Home Service battalions in 1916 for guarding and protecting sensitive locations in the U K., including POW camps. According to his medal list he became Capt 1st K O Y L I and served in Malta theatre of War from 1917 onwards.

b 1875 Handsworth, Sheffield. 1911C living at Moorseats, Hathersage, a solicitor (Russell & Creswick), details; Cambridge Alumni.

✟ ≠ F.5325 Air Mechanic 1st Grade, as a Carpenter and Joiner. He signed up on 2/6/1915 and served on HMS President III (his land base station) then at the Royal Naval Air Station Dunkirk. D of W on 15/2/1917 ‘caused by a bomb from hostile aircraft’, Buried at Dunkirk Town Cemetery Extension, France.  b 27/8/1894 at Liverpool, father George Cowin, b 1866 Sheffield. On George’s Navy records he is listed as living at 73A Harvey Clough Road, Norton. His mother Agnes (née Thompson) b1871, Fox House Inn, Hathersage. 1901C he is living at Stoke, Grindleford with his uncle George Arnold Turner, of Stoke Quarry.

b 1899 at Sheffield, son of James Cooper b Hathersage, a hackle pin grinder, and brother of Joseph & Samuel. 1911C; living at Sheffield. It is thought he moved to London and joined one of the Guards Regiments, but no more information has been found.

13206 Pte 7 Bn East Yorks Regt. Wounded on 1/6/1916 during the first day of the Battle of the  Somme.  The following from relations: – “He was shot through the hand when they went over the top on the first afternoon.  Apparently he arrived in the German trenches without his rifle and fought with his trenching tool.  He said that there were many spare rifles lying around, and he picked one up so that he didn’t get into trouble for losing his”.

His second wound, which ended his combat duty, was on 21/4/1917.  He was the only survivor of a three man Lewis gun party when a shell landed in the trench but he was protected because he was on a firing step cut into the trench wall. He later volunteered to go back as a stretcher bearer, hence his second service number; 134999 R.A.M.C.  b 1890 Barnfield, Hathersage, son of James Cooper b Hathersage, a hackle pin grinder, and brother of Joseph & William. 1911C; living at Sheffield.

We have a copy of a photo from Chris Hobbs’ website of him seated with a Robert Draycott (standing).

From C Hobbs’ website; “On July 1st 1916, my Great Grandfather, Private Sam Cooper, was with the 7th Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment opposite the town of Fricourt. To the north were the British lines, including many of the ‘Pals’ regiments, to the east were the French army. From going over the top, I believe the regiment lost around 123 killed and wounded in 3 minutes or so. Fricourt was the first part of the British line where the British broke through and, on July 2nd, Sam’s battalion reached Fricourt Wood, which had been heavily shelled by the British and largely destroyed; they found a single tree that had survived the carnage largely undamaged, and some of them cut a branch as a good luck token. Sam carried this with him for the rest of the war, surviving going over the top 21 times, though being wounded twice and ending the war in the medical corps. The stick has been made into a swagger stick, complete with silver 1916 3d piece in the handle. The stick bears a couple of small scars from shrapnel and has now been passed on to my son, along with Sam’s campaign medals and other memorabilia.

✟ ≠ M.G. Sgt 12/336 B Coy, Y & L (Sheffield City Battalion).  He was a student at the University of Sheffield living at Derwent House, Grindleford when he enlisted in the City Battalion on 10/9/1914. He was regularly promoted and was quite young to become a sergeant on 26/7/1915 with less than a year’s service, age 20. The battalion served in Egypt before going to France on 10/3/1916.  His service record survives and give some details of his family and military career. KIA 1/7/1916 (first day of the Battle of the Somme). Buried in Queens Cemetery, Puisieux, Pas de Calais, France. Remembered on Grindleford War Memorial. b 1895 Padley, Hathersage to George & Florence Cooper.