JENNISON, Hubert. M.C.

2/Lt Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regt. Lt Essex Regt, wounded at Gallipoli.  Acting Captain 14 Prince of Wales Own West Yorks Regt. Went to France 6/10/1915. Awarded M.C. Citation, London Gazette MID 22/5/1917; “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in bringing his Stokes mortar and ammunition forward by hand for a distance of 5 miles, keeping pace with the infantry throughout. At the end of this exhausting march he got his guns into position and kept them in action against hostile strong points under heavy fire. His own personality and endurance alone made this fine feat possible.”  (DC 26/10/1918 ‘Reported wounded’).

b1893 Gorton, Manchester.  1901C lived with his parents Richard and Annie, Lake Hotel, Hyde Road, Gorton, Manchester (father was the hotel manager) 1911C he was at school, living with his parents at Stanley Grove, Longsight, Manchester (father listed as a licenced victualler). The family were the founders and proprietors of Belle Vue Pleasure Gardens in Manchester. They Lived at ‘Sunnyside’ Outseats and ‘Hillfield House’, Outseats. The Middletons’ were also related. Hubert Jennison’s Grandmother was Mary Middleton. Her younger brother was William Middleton father of Charles, John Robert, Arthur & Ernest Middleton. Hubert married Doris Bentley 28/1/1919. He was a textile chemist and died 28/3/1956 age 63. Probate granted to his widow Doris Bentley of Kirkwood 44 Bradford Rd, Tranmere Park, Guisely, effects £25,470 4s 11d (A lot of money in 1956.)

JEPSON, John (Jack) Horace. M.M.

60366 Sgt M.G.C. Awarded MM. Service record says T/COL. but this probably should read; T/Cpl (temporary Corporal)?   b1898 Sheffield. 1911C living in Sheffield, a pit boy. Appears in 1925 Kelly’s in Hathersage, and was well known in the village well into the late 1900s. He is 6th from right on WHW2W p54 photo.

JEAL, Richard

ß Щ 307379 Pte Notts & Derbys. 2/8 Bn & 2/5 Bn. Became a POW. It is thought he was born 1885 in Burham or Barham, Kent, He does not appear on any census at all till 1911 when he shows up in Chesterfield. According to his war record, he was married 1904 in Kent, had a daughter b 1906 in Kent, and by 1907 he is living in Chesterfield, where he signed up for the T. A. HE dies in Chesterfield 1942. It is not certain that all this is correct for this our Richard Jeal, as it proved very difficult to obtain definite information about him. There is no other link to Hathersage, except for him being on the Bible Class Board.

JAQUES, James Henry

Had already been a serving soldier before WW1 in India & South Africa with York & Lancs, then Staff Sgt 1538 A.O.C . b 1875, 1911C a motor engineer in Bolton. His mother was Sarah Sellers (Sellars) b1854 Hathersage. His brother David was also a serving soldier in RE who died in India 1904.

JACKSON, Robert Bateman

ß ă Щ (DC 11/3/1916. Works at Hathersage Gas Company, granted a temporary two months exemption). 1918 Absent voters list shows him as DM2/189337 Pte BMTD, A.S.C..  living at Mona House, (Station Road), Hathersage. b1882 Nottingham. 1911C living with his family at Station Road, Hathersage, a clerk at the gas works.

SMITH, Elizabeth

b Waleswood, Yorkshire, on 6/9/1890, to Walter and Harriet T. Hardwick Smith.  In 1914 she wasworking as housekeeper at Ivy Deane, Back Lane, Hathersage.  (see Marion Peace) Subsequently she took nursing courses and volunteered at the Hathersage Red Cross Auxiliary Hospital. While there she met and became engaged to patient Charles Milton Iles from Cornwall, Ontario, Canada.  (See above).  She emigrated in June 1919, and they were married on 10/12/1919.

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ILES, Charles Milton

He joined the 59 Bn Canadian Expedionary Force, in Cornwall, Ontario, on 2/4/1915, transferred to 410316 38 Battalion, C.E.F., on 10/6/1915 during its period of garrison duty in Bermuda. Landed in France with the 38 Bn on 13/8/1916. Wounded on 9 or 11/4/1917 and invalided to England on 12/4/1917, then sent to Hathersage Red Cross Auxiliary Hospital, where he met Elizabeth Smith (see below).  They were married on 10/12/1919.  b1882 Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, to Edward and Mary Iles.  At the time of his enlistment in 1915 his trade was a machine operator.

IBBOTSON, Ernest Edward

12/1121 Pte  12 Bn York and Lancs (Sheffield City Battalion). (Manchester Guardian, ‘Gunshot wound to thigh and left foot’), probably in Battle of the Somme. (DC 15/7/1916 & also in SDT 12/7/1916; listed as wounded in thigh and foot). Discharged 13/4/1917.  b1885. Father was licensee of the Ordnance Arms, Hathersage where he and brother William were born. Later lived at “ the Leach,” Leadmill when he worked for Messrs Ibbotson, of Globe Street Works, Sheffield as a commercial traveller, and at Ivy Cottage. Later he was a salesman for Bulmers Cider and lodged at the Scotsman’s Pack. He was a member of Hathersage Cricket Club & captain of Hathersage Football Club. In spite of his wounds, between the wars he was a useful medium pace bowler and good for a few runs with Hathersage first cricket team. Died 1949, age 64 (SDT 4/3/1949).

IBBOTSON, Arthur

ă T2/12851 O/S Victory V1. R.N. Depot. He would probably have joined towards the end of the war. (DC 22/2/1919 discharged). b1899 Hathersage, 1911C  living with his uncle Thomas H B Ibbotson,  postman and coal agent, at ‘Holmedene’, Station Road, Hathersage. In 1918 on the Absent Voters list living at Bank View, Hathersage. Member of Hathersage B Legion in 1931.