✟ ≠ 25848 Sgt 16th Bn Sherwood Foresters. (Man Evening News 11/5/1915; Derbyshire Police Constables join up, including Hooker of Hathersage). KIA 13/11/1916. (Derby Daily Telegraph 1/12/1916; Sgt Hooker who served at different times with Derbyshire Police force in Brimington, Barrow Hill, Wirksworth, Hathersage and Bamford, and also as a private constable at Haddon Hall, has been killed in action. He was rescuing a wounded comrade when he was shot by a sniper). (DT 2/12/1916 p5 also served at Bakewell and was at Hathersage, from which station he joined the colours in the Chatsworth Rifles in connection with the Sherwood Foresters. Remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. b1877 Market Rasen, Lincs. 1911C at Bamford, a police constable, although he doesn’t appear on their memorial.