Month: November 2016

(For details see; ROOSE, Arthur below).

Driver Bdr L/5617 RFA, Pte Army Ordinance Corps S/9510. b 1879 Horsforth. 1911C in Horsforth a railway clerk. Three out of seven of his children listed as being born in Hathersage 1903-1906.

ă Absent voters address; Moorseats, Hathersage. Capt 8 Bn Y & L. Presumably George Cedric’s brother Geoffrey above. b 1890 Rotherham.

✟ Щ  Lt Yorks Regt., attached to ‘B’ Coy 8 Bn Y & L Regt. Volunteered in 1914. Gazetted 2/Lt May 1915. Wounded 1/7/1916 and died at Heilly, Nr Amiens, 4/7/1916 age 20. Grave; Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt l’Abbé, France. (SDT 10/7/1916 p7 Lt GC Hodgkinson Y & L of Rotherham, dies of wounds). See his article in WHW2W p 22.

The wooden cross from his grave in France now hangs in the Parish Church. He also appears on another memorial somewhere according to the inscription on Hathersage War Memorial.  b 1895 Rotherham.

One of six children, Vera, Enid, Monica, Geoffrey and one who died while still at school. Parents; Reginald Edward Hodgkinson JP & Margaret Jane. Educated at Clifton College, played 1^st XI Cricket there in 1914.  He lived at Hazelford Hall and his family later lived at Moorseats, Hathersage.

Pte 1941 King Edward’s Horse. (Not 100% sure this is him, but there is only one Sidney H Hodgkinson who fits). b 1896 Woolwich. Brother of Alfred Charles, above.

Pte 184905 MGC. b 1899 Woolwich. 1911C in Aston, Birmingham. Father Walter Hodgkinson b 1869 Hathersage, and 1911C in Aston. Brother of Sidney Herbert below.

KP/769 Leading Seaman R N V R. Also with Y & L. It was not unusual for Navy personnel to be drafted into Army front line activities.  b 1888 Hathersage, by 1891C living in Norton,  Sheffield and by 1901C in South Leverton, Notts, and he is listed as a tailor’s assistant on the 1911C living in Ulverston Road, Sheffield. His sister Nellie was born 1887 in Long Eaton, Notts, so the family moved about frequently and must have only been in Hathersage only a short time. The father Charles William was a coachman/groom and by 1901 seemed to be estranged from his wife Sarah and the family, who were living with their mother.

✟ ≠ Sapper 158030 173 Tunnel Coy Royal Eng. Presumed killed 29/3/1918. Remembered at Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France and on the Darfield Memorial Tablet, All Saints Church, Darfield. There seemed to have been a number of the soldiers from the same company ‘presumed killed’ that day. This suggested it might have been a tunnel collapse, but according to the records 173 Coy and several other tunnelling companies were converted to emergency Infantry, 25/3/1918 in order to help stem the first German Offensive of 1918.  b 1896 Darfield. 1911C at Darfield, an office boy. His mother was Clara Appleyard, b Hathersage 1875, she also lost a brother; James Appleyard in the conflict. Her nephew,  Wilson Eyre Appleyard also served.

(For details see; NEWTON, Wallace Harry, below).

(For details see; NEWTON, Charles, below).