Month: November 2016

Pte 115926 M G Corps (Motorised). b1892 Stoney Middleton. His mother was Mary Ann Buttery b1855 Hathersage. Cousin to Percy Luther Buttery and James Luther Buttery above, and to Percy and Sydney Skerritt, and Luther Priestley below.

née `Toucas. b 1879 France, died 1924 France. Wife of Harry Austin Hamilton KIA 1916, see above. Remarried 1920. Red Cross record; 10 Heathclose, Hampstead Way, London NW4. Quartermaster and Transport Driver at Hathersage VAD Hospital.   Her son Lt Col Anthony Edmond Hubert Hamilton OBE KIA 24/2/1944 WW2 at Anzio.

Possibly full time nurse Longshaw Red Cross Hospital

✟ ≠ Capt in the Territorials 1911. (Advert in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph 16/9/1911; ‘Capt H A Hamilton Adjutant, 3rd West Riding Brigade R.F.A. based at Edmund Road Barracks, Sheffield, wishes to hire horses for a series of training camps at Redmires Racecourse’). Major 23 Brigade R F A. (DC 8/1/1916, an article on ‘Hathersage Officers Mentioned in Despatches’ includes; ‘Major H A Hamilton who is well known in the village’)  K.I.A. 25/1/1916, and buried Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. b 1880 Edinburgh. Married to Madelaine M.M.E. Hamilton, b 1879 France. Their son Lt Col Anthony Edmond Hubert Hamilton OBE was KIA 24/2/1944 at Anzio.

See Joseph Austin Hallam above.

Pte 29122 Alexandra Princess of Wales Own  Yorkshire Regt.  b 1897 Rastrick, Yorks.  1911C in Rastrick. His father, Ashton Hall b 1859 Hathersage and 1861C living at Hathersage Lane, Outseats. He had two other sons; Charles and Albert, both of Military age but no details found.

ß ă Щ  354894 Spr R.O.D. R.E.  b 1889 Hathersage. 1911C living at School Lane, Hathersage, a fitters labourer with the Water Board. 1918 absent voters gives his address as The Dale.

Sister. Longshaw Red Cross Hospital.

b 1898 Hathersage.  1911C daughter of the Plough Inn landlord, Leadmill, Hathersage. Red Cross record; Plough Inn, general duties at Hathersage VAD Hospital.

Щ Д (Wesleyan Memorial 1922). b Sheffield 1897, adopted daughter of Frederick Hoyland and Eliza Emily Hoyland. 1911C Doris is listed as a pupil in Wandsworth, London. The family lived at ‘Belle Vue’, Jaggers Lane, Outseats when Frederick was a retired tailor.  Doris Elaine’s Red Cross record 1916 showed her from Belle View, Hathersage, a nurse at Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, and Military Hospital Aylesbury. She did not serve at Hathersage but her mother did.