Author: Brian Ward

 9893 Pte, KOYLI. A regular soldier, enlisted 20/10/1908 in Special Reserve. Served 9 months in South Africa in 1910, 2 years in Hong Kong 1911-1913, 1 year in Singapore 1913-1914, France 1915-1916. Received injury to knee and bullet wound to right ankle. Discharged as unfit for further duty 17/7/1916 age 27, intended place of residence given as 7 Crossland Road, Hathersage. b1896 Attercliffe, Sheffield, 1917 he married Caroline Hopkinson b c1876 Sheffield, (widow, née Rhodes). Their daughter Marjorie Mary Whitmore b 1918, married James Harold Holmes, brother of Bernard Holmes. Ernest died 1918 age 32 and his wife died 1957, both buried in Hathersage churchyard.

Pte 12598 6 Kings Royal Rifles Corps. Enlisted 29/5/1915, (Probably Pte 3523 2/6 Bn., North Staffs before this). He later transferred to Spr 308929 R.E., WR 126183  Railways Transport Dept. Discharged 24/6/1919. b 14/8/1894 Burton-on-Trent. 1911C shown as ‘Frank’ living at 5 Moon Street, Burton-on-Trent. After the war, he moved to Sheffield to work as a railway signalman, where he met and in 1924 married Lily Hoyland (b1902 Firth Park, Sheffield). In 1929 the family moved to Crossland Road, Hathersage, when he became a railway signalman at the Hathersage signal box. In 1932/33 while still working at the Hathersage box they moved to 3 Woodland View, Grindleford, until he died in January 1986.

Pte 4863  (Possibly in Territorials), L/Cpl 31236 8 Y & L. Discharged 11/4/1917 suffering from Bright’s Disease. b1878 Ripon. 1911C at Mount Pleasant Farm, Highlow, a bank clerk.

Capt. London Scottish, Major 11th County of London Bn., (Finsbury Rifles). Appears not to have gone overseas. b 1867 Henley, Bucks. 1911C a stock broker living in Herts.

Married Georgina (b1875 Chelsea), daughter of Thomas Norton Longman, Nether Hall, Hathersage, (Of the ‘Longman Publishing’ family). The family was at Nether Hall from at least 1891 until 1909. Her mother was President of Hathersage Mothers Union.

Enlisted August 1914; Pte 12/558 Sheffield City Bn, York & Lancs. Was in the Battle of the Somme 1/7/1916. Invalided home in 1917 with Trench Fever. Promoted Act Sgt, then 28/5/1918; Commissioned Duke of Wellingtons, 2/Lt West Riding Regt. At the end of the war he was training as an Air Pilot. b1893, Sheffield, son of Mr & Mrs George Luther Wood of Dore. Attended Silcoates School, Wakefield. Married Mary Susannah Catherine Gregory, only daughter of Mr & Mrs Walter Gregory of Hathersage on 10/7/1915 at Hathersage Wesleyan Chapel. Her brother John Darvill Gregory being best man. Worked in the family business of G. L. Wood & Co., Timber Merchants, Nursery Street, Sheffield. Died 12/1/1934 aged 41, and buried in Hathersage Churchyard.

20367 Pte Kings Own Scottish Borderers. (SDT 10/7/1916 p2 Mr & Mrs William Wilson, Bank Top, Hathersage, have been informed that their son Pte Harry Wilson has been wounded and is now in hospital. Prior to his enlistment he was employed as a porter by the Midland Railway Co., at Chinley Station).  (SDT 20/11/1916; wounded in the arm some time ago, is in hospital).  b 1896 Hathersage, son of William (General labourer) and Agnes Wilson. 1901C & 1911C living at Bank Top, Hathersage, a railway porter. Brother of William Wilson.

Sick Bay Steward, Royal Navy Brigade. b1887 Sheffield, a chemist. (SDT; 7/2/1918 married Eva Maria Wilson, late of Hathersage).  Eva was born 1887, 1891C living at Newtown Row, Hathersage, with parents, William and Sarah M, brother Joseph b1875 and sister Sarah, b1879.

Pte T/236696 RASC. Brother of George Ambrose, John A, and William Alban Slinn. Their father was John  Abram Slinn, b 1865 Hathersage and 1871C living on Oddfellows Row, Hathersage. Their mother was Sarah Ann Melland, elder sister of Hannah Maria Melland, the wife of Gilbert James McIlwrick above.

Nurse at Hathersage VAD Hospital c1915-1918.  b1894. Elder sister of Cicely Agnes Bright Porter. b1894 Sheffield. Her fiancé was killed in WW1 and she never married. d May 1981 Westmorland. Their father William Smith Porter was a Physician, Lt Col R.A.M.C (territorial) 3^rd Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, 1914-1918. Built ‘Phoebe Croft’ at Hope, Derbyshire, where the family lived 1908-1920, before returning to Sheffield. There were several organised trips by patients of Hathersage VAD hospital, to ‘Phoebe Croft’ during the war.

A Nurse at Hathersage VAD Hospital c1915-1918, then 1918-1919 at 4 London general Hospital (Kings Cross Hospital).  b 1895 Sheffield. 1911C at Hope. Married 28/8/1928 Edward Fairchild Watling, classics master at King Edwards School, Sheffield. d 2/6/1982, Kendal, Westmorland. Sister of Edith Mary Porter. Their father William Smith Porter was a Physician, Lt Col R.A.M.C (territorial) 3^rd Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, 1914-1918. Built ‘Phoebe Croft’ at Hope, Derbyshire, where the family lived 1908-1920, before returning to Sheffield. There were several organised trips by patients of Hathersage VAD hospital, to ‘Phoebe Croft’ during the war.