Month: November 2016

MASON, George Lingly

⚜ 125098 Pte Y & L  L/Cpl 8 /10 & 1/4  Bn York and Lancs. (SDT 12/7/1916; listed as Gnr Mason, R.F.A., wounded and is in hospital.) (DC 27/10/1917; Lewis Gun Section, wounded in the leg by shrapnel and in Base Hospital in France). b 1898 Hathersage, son of Thomas & Lilly Mason. 1911C lived at Main Road, Hathersage.

MARSDEN, Edwin

✟ Щ 1911C Pte 2 Bn East Yorks Regt in India. 17502 Cpl 2/17 Field Coy R.E., a regular soldier, Edwin was the inventor of the improved trestle bridge building, accepted by the War Office and known as the ‘Marsden Band Trestle’. K.I.A. 23/8/1914. Grave; Hautrage Military Cemetery, Belgium, Ref; 1-D-12. News has reached Sheffield of the death in action of Corporal Edwin Marsden R.E. In a letter conveying the news of his death, Major C. W. Singer, commanding the 17 Company, R.E. paid a tribute to his heroism. “It will be a gratification to you”, he writes to Corporal Marsden’s father, “to know that he died as he had lived, as a brave soldier and a gentleman. He had just performed a most gallant deed in volunteering to blow up a bridge under very heavy fire, which he did unscathed, shortly afterwards he was hit on the head by a shrapnel bullet and expired instantaneously, without any pain…  Personally I feel I have lost a friend and a gallant comrade.”  There was a photo of him in DC 12/12/1914. Parents endowed a bed in his memory at Hathersage Red Cross Hospital. (DC 27/2/1915; mentioned in despatches by Sir John French, who said, “He had been in the Army upwards of six years and was frequently commended by his Officers for courage. During the early days of the war it was necessary that a bridge near Mons should be blown up, and as the enemy was in a strong force, the task was of extreme danger. Corporal Marsden was one of the men who undertook the work, which was carried through successfully’).  b c1886 Sheffield. 1901C at Worksop College age 14, a boarder. He was at this school for 12 months and left in 1901.His family only lived in Hathersage a short time at “The Booths“. (Rev M Hulbert’s notes gave his address as Birley Farm, but his address in the list of people mentioned in by Sir John French, was ‘Hillcrest’ i.e., Sheffield Road, which could be deemed “Booths”?) His parents Arthur Edwin & Sarah Marsden moved to ‘Stanmore’, Heatherfield, Totley, his father being an ivory dealer/ cutter.

MAINPRICE, Humphrey

Capt 3rd Kings Royal Rifle Regiment. Gazetted 12/11/ 1914. b c1882 Ashley Heath Cheshire. 1911C in Newquay, Cornwall, a private tutor. Played cricket for Cambridge University & Gloucestershire before the war. His Marriage certificate Oct 1914 lists occupation as soldier so he was already serving then. He was living at Hillside, Hathersage by the end of 1922, (from his medal list, his previous address was his London club). Shown as living at Park Edge, Hathersage in 1932 Kelly’s Directory, but he seemed to have left the village mid 1930’s and moved to Youlgreave. His wife Dorothy (born in Australia) was very big in the local Girl Guide Association.

LOWE, Joseph

ă 50212 Pte 5 Yorks L.I.  (HPN 9/12/1916; ‘Son of Mr John Lowe, The Dale, has been promoted to Sergeant and musketry instructor’).  b 1894 Hathersage. 1911C living at The Dale, Hathersage, a general labourer. (HPN 30/12/1916; ‘visited his home in Hathersage last week’). He is 2nd from right on WHW2W p 54 photo. Father of Hazel Lowe.

LOWE, Fred

2818 Pte 18 Hussars Queen Mary’s Own.  Went to France in 1914, and taken prisoner on 20 Oct 1914 at Lille, not wounded, according to his German POW record dated 27 Aug 1917. He was at Soltau and Hamelin camps, and his next-of-kin shown as at 21 Riverside, Driffield. (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 14/11/1914; report of his capture).  Born 23/9/1886 Hathersage ‘Old Dale’. 1911C (listed as Fred Louis), already serving in the Military at Delhi Barracks. South Tidworth, Hants. While stationed at Scarborough pre-war, he met his future wife, Annie Spellings. He died at Driffield, Yorks in 1932 aged only 45,

The following is from the Great War Forum website;

‘September 17th 1914. Private F. Lowe 18th Hussars, British Expeditionary Force writes as follows to his friend, at The Dale, Hathersage: – “Just a few lines to say I am all right at present.  I have often wished to see a battle, but it is Hell on earth when the shrapnel shells burst above us, and we see men and horses dropping in heaps.  There is one good thing about the Germans they are very poor shots, or we could not have lasted so long, but we are getting topside of them and I don’t think the war will last very long.  I only hope to get back safe and sound.  We get very little rest: last night we got about an hour, and we are in luck if we get over four hours any time.  My boss sent me a tin of Bruno tobacco I did enjoy it.  We cannot buy anything here, the Germans have cleared every village and town.  The devils go into houses and ransack the place and take the food.  The Belgians and French people are the best I have ever met.  They give us tobacco, food, wine chocolates and fruit.  They think the world of English soldiers’
‘Private F. Lowe was in the charge of the Light Brigade when it fell into a trap attempting to capture some guns near Compiegne and the 9 Lancers were badly cut up with the 18 Hussars and Dragoons.  Private Lowe has still the same horse he took out with him from England, and he is very much attached to it. The Hathersage people might follow the “boss’s” example and send our Hathersage men at the front some tobacco.  Mr Roden will be pleased to receive parcels of tobacco and cigarettes and send them out to our Hathersage lads in the front.’

(Mr Roden was the Hathersage School Headmaster at the time.)

LONGDEN, George Mosley

ß Щ 33127 Driver, R F A, discharged April 1915 due to illness. b 1893 Hathersage. Both parents died the same year he was born and only a year after they were married in Hathersage in 1892. Mother was Louisa Mosley (b 1870 Grindleford Bridge), 1891C her family was living at Higgar Lodge, Hathersage.  She died 1893 (in childbirth?). Father, Charles Hubert Longden (b 1868 Hope 1891C living at Derwent, a farmer, d1893). 1901C  George Mosley was at Station Road, Hathersage, spelt ‘Longdin’ with grandmother Harriett Mosley, widow, (b Worksop). 1911C  living at Bradford with his Aunty Hannah Harrison, (b Eyam) and her family all b Hathersage, working as a feeder at print works.

LOCKWOOD, Isa Muriel

b 1879 Sheffield. 1911C Sheffield. Red Cross record; a nurse at Hathersage VAD Hospital, she also worked Queen Mary’s Convalescent Hospital, Roehampton and lived at Pitsmoor, Sheffield.