Month: November 2016

Pte no 27986 Grenadier Guards. b 1879 Southport.1911C in Southport a painter. His wife was Myra Watts, b 1876 Hathersage, sister of Henry Watts & Isaac Watts.

✟ ≠ ⚜  J 60695 O/S RN killed 1/3/1917 aged 19. He was an Ordinary Seaman aboard “H M S Pheasant “, which struck a mine off Orkney. Remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial ref 25. b 1898 Horsforth, Leeds. Son of Charles M and Ann Hunt of 20 Wheat Street, Ingrow, Keighley. The family came from Horsforth but 1911C lived at 2 Crossland Road, Hathersage. He was a member of Hathersage Scouts.

M2/168010 Pte R A S C., M.T. (Motor Transport).  b 1887 Sheffield. 1901C family living at The Ordnance Arms, Hathersage where father Alfred was Landlord. Brother of Oliver.

7221 Pte 2 Bn Yorkshire Regiment, suffered from malaria (and a ‘social disease’!). Discharged 1916 and dead by 1919. b1885 Sheffield. 1901C family living at The Ordnance Arms, Hathersage where father Alfred was Landlord. Brother of Frank Leonard.

129436 R.F.C./R.A.F. Aircraft Mechanic 3^rd Class.  b1890 Sheffield, 1911C living in Sheffield, father Tom Merrill Hughes, lived at Holmedene, Hathersage (1925 Kelly’s).

17193 Sgt East Yorkshire Regt.  Although DC 15/2/16 – refers to ‘Sgt A Hughes, late of Hathersage, killed’  Alfred Taylor Hughes  died at home of diabetes circa 1950, according to his great granddaughter and there is no reference to a Sgt A Hughes being listed on the War Graves between the periods 1/11/15 to 28/2/16.  b 1878 Belper. 1911C, lived at 11 Crossland Road. Hathersage, time keeper at the Water Board.

ă T/306070 Pte 15 Coy M.T., A.S.C.  1918 absent voters list shows military information as above and his address simply; ‘Hathersage’. No other information or other link with Hathersage.

(DC 10/3/1917; 3 months exemption granted but he had to give help to other farmers 3 days a week’). Played cricket for Hathersage.

ă Д  (DC 28/1/1922 listed among Methodist Church Members who had served).  38172 Pte 55 Field Amb R.A.M.C.  b 1894 Highlow. 1911C he and brother Samuel both working at Broadhay Farm, Highlow.

ă 17473 Pte. 8 Y & L. (SDT 15/7/1916; In hospital suffering from wounds in the body). (Later the same year, DC 14/10/1916; Became a POW). b 1892 Highlow. 1911C he and his brother Tom Howe, were both working at Broadhay Farm, Highlow.