Month: November 2016

W. 478492 Spr R E. (T) 2961 R E. b1898 Hathersage. 1911C living at Dronfield.

42379 Pte Notts & Derbys, 56554 Royal Welsh Fusiliers. (DC 22/9/1917, ‘Pte Albert Platts, Sherwood Foresters of Gatehouse, Outseats, Hathersage wounded in the thigh in France and is in hospital. Before enlistment he was employed at the offices of the Derwent Water Board at Bamford’). 30/1/1918; discharged unfit. There was a Cpl Platts of A coy 5 Volunteer (Hathersage) Battalion, who attended Arthur Dobney King’s funeral in Nov 1918, who was probably this same person. b 1876 Gatehouse Farm, Outseats, at 41 he was quite old to be front line. 1911C at Gatehouse Farm, Outseats a farm worker.

Gnr R.F.A. 644282 Pte Labour Corps. b 1892 Hathersage. 1911C in Leicester.

1669 6 Bn Cheshire Regt Res Bn. Enlisted 1/4/1914, discharged 14/5/1915. Enlisted again 5/10/1915, Rifleman 474423 12 London Regt. GSW to hand. b 1898 Stockport. His father was George Pickersgill, b 1874 Hathersage (Sunnybank Cottage) an electrician. 1911C in Stockport.

(DC 23/8/1919, ‘Hathersage football club will be without W Pepper as he lost a foot in the war’), Otherwise no military record found. b 1880 Marple Bridge, Longford (Glossop). 1911C living at Dalton’s Farm, Jaggers Lane, Hathersage.

Pte 53473 Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regt. b 1899 Fulwood, brother of James Henry above. Their father John Peat b 1849 Hathersage. 1911C at Ringinglow, a general labourer.

✟ ≠ Pte 26698 6 Bn (Service) Y & L. KIA 9/1/1917, listed on the Tyne Cot Memorial. b 1894 Fulwood a farm labourer, brother of John Edward below. Their father John Peat b 1849 Hathersage. 1911 C at Ringinglow, a general labourer

ă 17550 Pte Labour Corps., also served 30116 Pte Y & L. b 1881 Hull. 1911C living at Sheffield, a window dresser.  On 1918 Absent voters list his address given as Crossland Road, Hathersage.

Joined the Royal Navy and R.F.C. on 29/5/1917; 11 F 27909 R N rating, HMS President (a submarine hunter, launched in 1918 to protect Atlantic convoys, remains moored on London’s Victoria Embankment in 2016). Became an Armoured Crew 1st class, in the Royal Naval Air Service. b 1897 Hathersage. 1911C in Sheffield.

⚜ R N V R. Z /1296. b 1899 at Bradwell. 1911C living at Station Road, Hathersage. Son of John William and Catherine, brother of George Herbert Peacock.