RIGGALL, Robert Marmaduke.

Lt Commander Staff Surgeon, Royal Marines. b 1881 St Pancras. Enlisted 1909. Half-brother of Paul Rigauld Riggall and Francis Edward Riggall. Father was Marmaduke Riggall, b 1851 Wawne, Yorks. 1911C Loughborough . Wesleyan Minister for Hathersage – (Belper News 2/7/1909; leaves Hathersage after four years) and died 1927 at Alford, Lincs. Mother was his father’s first wife; Sarah Annie Hatton, b1861 Woolston, Lancs., d1884 Dorset.

PORDAGE, Frederick Clough Frankland.

P/5237 Act Sgt. Mounted Military Police. Born 19/1/1888, Karachi India (Now Pakistan). Enlisted in Southampton although living in Sheffield from May 1913, a constable in the local Police Force, and a member of the Army Reserve. Married Evelyn TIMPERLEY at All Saints Church, Brightside in Nov 1913. He presented himself for war service on 6/8/1914 & arrived in France on 16/8/1914 and remained there until the end of WW1, with occasional visits home to Sheffield to visit his wife & young son. Attached to 17th Lancers at one stage. (DT 25/1/1919 p4 states he was from Hathersage and awarded the Meritorious Service Medal).He could only have been there a short time, as after the war he found it difficult to settle, so he & his wife & young family emigrated to Australia in 1920, leaving behind a baby daughter in Burngreave Cemetery, Sheffield, taken by the Spanish Flu. In Australia, they initially settled on a Soldier Settlement farm, hoping to grow pineapples, but the scheme failed & the family lived through a time of destitution. They eventually got back on their feet & raised 7 children & were upstanding members of their church & community. There were eventually 120+ members of this family in Australia. Fred passed away in 1966 at Coolangatta, Australia, and Evelyn in 1972. (Most information provided by Jocelyn Abrahams, his granddaughter).

EYRE, William.

Listed in DT 2/1/1915 as those from Hathersage serving in the armed forces. Served in Y & L but unable to find more detail. b 1887 Manchester, possibly son of John & Martha Eyre.

EYRE, Samuel.

Shown in list of Servicemen in DT 2/1/1915 as in RFA possibly. b 1880. Last evidence of him was in 1891C (if it is the same man). Son of Thomas, brother of Wilfred (Barnfield ) who along with brother Lewis, disappear from all records after the death of their mother in 1897!

EYRE, James W

(Shown in list of Servicemen in DT 2/1/1915 as a member of the Derbyshire Yeomanry (which morphed into the Notts & Derby’s Regt.). No other information found.

BATES, Ernest

9/2104 Lancs Fusiliers, 70642, 23360, 5876644 Northants Regt., discharged 19/9/1919. b29/6/1892 Brockwell, Chesterfield, son of Joseph Arthur & Annie Bates. Came to Hathersage in 1937. Lived 23 (later 8) Mill Lane, Hathersage until he died 8/6/1961.

HOLLES, Herbert George.

Pte 74548 Devonshire Regt. According to Pension Record ref: 7/MH/4385 he was discharged with disability 13/5/1920, home address Hathersage. b 22/8/1900 Stourbridge. Married in 1931 in Ecclesall Bierlow to Marion Wild b 6/5/1909. 1939 Register they were living at 8 Crawshaw Avenue, Sheffield. He later moved to Bournemouth where he died 11/8/1994. His wife had died in 1981.