Month: November 2016

(see Newton, Raymond Crossland above).

✟ ⚜ Щ 29896 Guardsman 3 Bn Grenadier Guards. Enlisted in 1917.  K.I.A. 23/8/1918 age 19. His Name appears as ‘Raymond’ on the Hathersage War Memorial and in the casualty lists, but Reginald in WHW2W. (DC 7/9/1918; ‘Mrs Grace Newton of ‘Moorland’, Crossland Road, Hathersage, was informed that her son Raymond Crossland Newton, Grenadier Guards was killed in action’). Grave: Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, France. Ref; 4-K-4. b 1900, son of Grace Newton (née Heaton, b Sheffield) of Crossland Road. His Grandmother was Sarah A Crossland. The Crosslands were one of the oldest families in the village, but have subsequently died out. The Newton’s were beset by tragedy; father Herbert Bennet Newton died a year after Raymond was born in 1900. In 1901C Raymond was living with his widowed mother at 347 Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield, and sister Irene, who died in 1905, age about 9. In 1911C Raymond age 12, living with his mother, a boarding house keeper, at 14 Thompson Road, Sheffield with 6 boarders and a servant.

née Heaton. b1867 Mother of Raymond Crossland Newton KIA.  Red Cross record; at Crossland Road, originally a homeworker, knitting & needlework, later general duties for Hathersage VAD hospital.

✟ ≠ L/Cpl 175284 Queens Own Yorkshire Dragoons. KIA 20/10/1918, buried Harlebeke New British Cemetery, West Flanders. b 1894 Sheffield. 1911C a clerk in Sheffield. His mother was Clara Boden b 1865 Hathersage.

8866 Pte Manchester Regt.  He had already been  a serving soldier, having spent five years in India with the Manchester Regt, (1911C; India), later Pte in the Cheshire Regiment. Sent to France 6/1/1915 to 23/10/1915 when he received a shrapnel wound in left thigh at the Battle of Loos, and never seemed to recover properly from it. From 21/11/1915 to 29/9/1916 he spent most of his time in Hospital. He was downgraded 30/1/1917 and sent to work for Vickers Barrow in Furness.  b 1883 Hathersage. 1911C in India. Brother of Aaron and half-brother to Wallace Harry Newton. Parents Isaac and Ruth (née Higginson)

(Known as Charlie Higginson, before their father died, then as Charlie Newton).† ≠ 5530 Y & L, then 60362 Pte M.G.C. D of W 21/5/1917. Grave; Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, Mory, Pas de Calais, France. b 1884 Hathersage, as Charles Higginson. Brother of Joseph Newton/Higginson and Percy Newton/Higginson, (and James Newton/Higginson, b1876 Hathersage, a police constable in Sheffield City Police, who did not serve in the forces), sons of the late Thomas Francis (b1852 Hathersage, registered as ‘Higginson’ but baptised as ‘Newton’), a Hackle Pin Grinder, and Martha Newton (née Barber, b 1854 Castleton). In 1891C the family is called Higginson living in Leeds. In 1898 father Thomas Francis Newton dies in Sheffield, mother Martha does not remarry. The whole family appear on 1901C & 1911C in Sheffield, as ‘Newton’.

Enlisted 2/6/1916, 76211 Pte 10 Bn Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regt, & 2/4 West Riding and 39917 Gloucestershire Regt. Sent to France 3/10/1917, seriously wounded 25/11/1917, probably hit by shrapnel in the head and cheek, and spent most of the rest of the war in hospital. 1911C and Army record gave b 1888 Hathersage, 1901C & 1891C gave b Hope Woodlands! Brother of Clarence Ralph Newton and half-brother to Wallace Harry Newton (see below).

Kicked out of the Royal Navy after only 3 months in 1909 (age 16). Joins the Army 22/9/1913 Pte 10295 2nd Bn Alexandra Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Regt (Green Howards). In court in Guernsey 23/4/1914 for smashing up public property, 1 month imprisonment. Army suspect it was deliberate to get a discharge so naturally didn’t give him one! String of Military and Civil offences on his service report. Sent to France Nov 1914 ‘till Apr 1918. Severe GSW left leg. In Wharncliffe Military Hospital, Sheffield ‘till July 1920. b 1893 Filey. 1911C in Scunthorpe. Son of John William Nelson, brother of Gilbert Victor Nelson and Vincent Ethelbert Nelson.

In chronological order; Pte 7854 KOYLI, 202213 2/5 Bedford Regt, 552148 2/5 Essex Regt, 525 HS Employment Co, Labour Corp (attached to Essex Regt so keeps same number), 527 HS Employment Corp, injured in riding accident, June 1917. (Seemed to be a soldier nobody wanted?) Army records state he was a groom living in Doncaster. b1875 Guiseley 1911C a coachman, Penkridge, Staffs. Son of John William Nelson, brother of Gilbert Victor Nelson and William Edward Nelson.

Act/Cpl 98491, 183 /223 Field Coy RE (both were Tunnelling Companies). b 1887 Bolton Abbey. 1911C Leeds Engineman.

Son of John William Nelson. b 1846 Guiseley Yorks, who married Mary Waite, who in 1881C was at Guiseley, a wool cloth maker, 1891C father at Edale, a missionary to Navvies, probably the railway workers, around 1891, he was a short time in Hathersage. 1901C at Northfield Worcs, a missionary, 1911C a missionary at Scunthorpe. Their children were; Arthur Norman Nelson b 1872 Guiseley 1911C a coachman, Low Bentham, Lancaster. Harold Waite Nelson b 1874 Guiseley 1911C a carpenter, Selby. Vincent Ethelbert Nelson. b1875 Guiseley. Evelyn Nelson (male) b Guiseley 1877 1901C an engine driver London, marries in London 1904 (no record found after). Anna Nelson b 1879 Guiseley, marries John Joseph Henry. 1901C at Chorlton, emigrates to Australia 1912. Agnes Nelson, b1882 Guiseley, 1911C a dressmaker living with her parents in Scunthorpe. John Albert Nelson, b Guiseley 1883, (name alternates between John Albert and Albert John), no records after 1901C. Helena Nelson, b 1885 Guiseley, 1911C a midwife in Wandsworth, London. The above Gilbert Victor Nelson. Lucy Marie Nelson, b 1889 Halifax, dies 23/12/1891 and is buried Hathersage, age 3. Millicent Amy Nelson, b Nov 1891 Hathersage, 1911C an Asylum Nurse in Suffolk. William Edward Nelson, b 1893 Filey. 1911C in Scunthorpe.