Month: November 2016

1911C based in Ireland.  Capt, later Major, then Brigadier General. Served with the Kings Shropshire Light Infantry 2nd Bn at Secunderbabab, North west Frontier, India. 1914 Returned to UK and was made CO of 6th Bn K.S L I and led them into the Somme battle at Delville Wood Flers Courcelette. After which he was placed on the Staff Supply Roll and had a variety of appointments including CO of The Corps Infantry School. April 1918 appointed CO 1st Bn K.S.L.I but only lasted a few weeks due to ill health.

Later was given command of 171st Brigade 57 (2nd West Lancs Division). Awarded CMG. b 1870 Kirk Langley, Derbyshire, (his family have their own estate there).  In 1902 he married Edith Violet Cammell b 1882 Hathersage , sister of Iris Cammell  (wedding details DT 3/1/1903 or Derby Daily Tele 2/1/1903)

They had a son, also Godfrey; also Capt K S L I. Killed Northwest Frontier in 1935 awarded the VC & MC , another son David, was Brigadier General in the Royal Irish Fusiliers and awarded a CBE.

Pte 23984 West Yorks Regt, 10526 Labour Corps.  b 1895 Leeds, 1911C a warehouse man in Leeds. His mother was Frances Hobson, b 1864 Hathersage. 1861C the family are living at Cabbage Row, Hathersage.

Red Cross record; Sheffield Road, Hathersage a nurse at Hathersage VAD Hospital. This is thought to be, Selina Meldrum, née Coates, b 1884 Newton-by-Frodsham, Cheshire. 1925 Kelly’s; Walter Kenneth Meldrum lived at Overton, Sheffield Road, Hathersage.

✟ ≠ 201417 Cpl A Coy 1/4 York & Lancs. K I A. 9/10/1917 remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial.  b 1894 Hathersage. 1891C the family of Alfred Mee, coachman living at ‘The Hill’ Outseats. 1901C Lewis is shown as ‘Nice’ instead of ‘Mee’ but in 1911C living at Sheffield again as ‘Mee’. Lewis married Edna Baxter in 1915, who later married William Brammer in 1919, after his death.

(Shown as Thomas Felix on 1919 electoral roll)  ă (Shown in list of Servicemen in DT 2/1/1915 as in Oxfordshire Yeomanry). (DC 25/9/1917; shown as F F McKenna of Roslyn Crescent, Hathersage, who, before the war worked for a Sheffield business, then enlisted as a Private at outbreak of war. Later commissioned. Capt 31 Div York & Lancs. Badly wounded, broke his shoulder, thigh and lost a finger. Later in R A F).  b 1891 Willington, Derbyshire. 1911C living at Nuneaton, an agent for a company. Address on 1918 absent voters list and 1919 Electoral register as Roslyn Road, Hathersage.

Cpl M2/082460 RASC. b 1878 Glasgow. 1911C in Chesterfield, a steel dresser. His wife was Hannah Maria Melland, b 1879 Bamford, (sister of Sarah Ann Melland, mother of the Slinn brothers below; Arthur Edward Slinn, George Ambrose Slinn, John A Slinn, & William Alban Slinn). Three of James Gilbert’s four sons were all born in Hathersage; Thomas Edward 1904, Gilbert James 1906, and William Andrew 1910.

Capt 8 Bn West Yorks (Leeds Rifles) and was twice wounded. He lived at ‘Eastwood’, opposite Hathersage Church, where the Rifle Club met between the war years. He was successful in raising a large number of recruits for a Sherwood Foresters unit in during March 1939, before he served in WW2, 92248 Major 215 Bn Sherwood Foresters, when he was the first Hathersage man killed in WW2 during the evacuation of Dunkirk on 27/5/1940, although it was only later that year his death was confirmed.  b Feb 1894 Haddington Burgh, East Lothian, Scotland. 1901C the family is in Gloucestershire. His father was Hardy Bertram McCall (an author whose books are still in print). 1911C at school, in Richmond, Yorks, listed as Hardy McCall. Family firm was McCalls Reinforcements, Sheffield.

Probably Cpl. Mawhood of A Coy 5 Volunteer (Hathersage) Battalion, who attended Arthur Dobney King’s funeral in Nov 1918, when he would have been 51.  b 1867 South Cave, East Yorks. 1911C; living at ‘Westfield’, (Castleton Road) Hathersage.

Main Road, Hathersage, a trained nurse at Hathersage VAD Hospital.

ă In August 1917 he was 410028 Sgt., R.A.M.C. 69 General Hospital, based in Palestine. He was later at Hathersage Red Cross Hospital and he subsequently became a cadet in the R.A.F., until finally transferred and commissioned 2/Lt in the Dorsetshire Regt.  b 1892 at Rochdale. 1911C in Sheffield, a chemist’s assistant. 1918 absent voters lists him at the Red Cross Hospital, Hathersage, and then his address on his Medals Roll in 1920 was given as ‘Belmont’, (Jaggers Lane), Hathersage. However by the end of 1921 his address was 14 Bishopholme Road, Sheffield.