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ă 785056 C Battery R.F.A. Joined up in 1909 at Norfolk Barracks, Sheffield. 591 Gnr  1/3 West Riding Brigade R .F.A. (T) 9 Battery. Discharged after serving 7 yrs 15 days on 4/4/1916, his intended place of residence then shown as ‘Brick Huts’, Grindleford, (actually Padley, Hathersage), where his mother and Annie Hounam were living in 1911C. These were probably the cottages built for railway construction workers and later Bole Hill quarry workers, where stone for the Howden & Derwent dams was excavated, early 20thC. b Blackpool Aug 1886. Also lived in Bury, Lancs. His mother was Kate Hounam, (she became Thompson and later Allen). 1891 Benj Thompson was living with his grandfather George Hounam. (‘Hope Valley Line’ book p 174; ‘Feb 1893 a Benjamin Thompson suffered from smallpox and was taken to Bakewell Workhouse’). 1901C, living with Uncle William Hounam, at Sheffield. It is thought he married Lily Staniforth, in 1908. There were two children. Lillian, b 1911 Ecclesall Bierlow, and Harold B, b 1913 died 1918. Both births registered in Bakewell District.  He possibly went to Canada as quite a few of the family did. There was also a brother John Hadfield Thompson who served with the East Yorks Regt, but in 1914, before war broke out he went to Canada. He had a half-sister Emma, born out of wedlock in 1911, she was a servant at Stoke, Grindleford. Lily Hounam, his cousin, married George Blagden in Canada (see above).

Enlisted 3/9/1914, 12537 Pte 8 Bn Y & L., later L/Cpl, 3 Y & L. Served in France and Italy. Demobbed 16 Feb 1919 + 28 days furlong i.e., 20/3/1919. b 7 Aug 1887 Piper House, Near Fox House, Hathersage, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, brother of John Thomas, William Henry & Harold, and cousins of Frederick, George and Percy Roberts Thompson. His father was innkeeper at The Fox House Inn and his mother took over the licence after his death in 1895. 1911C the family were later living on Station Road, Hathersage, Alfred being a farm labourer.  He married Clara Green on 13 Apr 1915, (after enlisting), when she was living at ‘Woodcote’ Abbey Lane, Beauchief.

Щ  V.A.D. Hathersage Red Cross Hospital. (see p 41 WHW2W).  b 1887 Hillsborough. 1911C “Ketherby” (Probably Netherby), Castleton Road, Outseats, with her father, Henry Hawksley Taylor and mother Clara Louisa (above).  In autumn 1919 all were living at Barnfield House. She died in 1976, at Cliffe Cottage, Hathersage. Her brother Stephen George, who was 22 at the 1911C, did not appear to serve. He was in the cutlery trade, and as such was probably considered to be in a reserved occupation.

Pioneer 220290 no 3 Special Coy R E. Badly Gassed 10/4/1918 when a shell exploded in the ammunition dump, where he was fitting fuses at the time. Commemorated on the St Peter’s Church Roll of Honour, Abbeydale Road, Sheffield (demolished in 2003).  b 1894 Bridlington 1911C in Sheffield, an Analytical Chemist. brother of Arthur Stanley above, their mother was Rosanna Grayson b 1862 Hathersage 1871C at Sheffield Road, Hathersage. This roll of honour is now in St Peter & St Oswald’s Church, Abbeydale Road. See pictures.

ß Щ This could be Sgt or L/Cpl Taylor of A Coy 5 Volunteer (Hathersage) Battalion, who attended Arthur Dobney King’s funeral, Nov 1918.

(née Oxspring). b 1859 Sheffield. 1911C at Hathersage, mother of Marguerite (Daisy) Taylor, see below. Red Cross record; at Barnfield, Hathersage; general duties at Hathersage VAD Hospital.

Pte 46077 12th Y & L. Acting Corp RE 16977.  Commemorated on the St Peter’s Church Roll of Honour, Abbeydale Road, Sheffield (demolished in 2003). b 1887 Sheffield. 1911C  living at 23 Gatefield Road, Sheffield, an Analytical Chemist. Brother of Lance Neville below, their mother was Rosanna Grayson b 1862 Hathersage, 1871C living at Sheffield Road, Hathersage. This roll of honour is now in St Peter & St Oswald’s Church, Abbeydale Road. See pictures.

Lived at Meadow Bank Avenue, Sheffield. A nurse at Longshaw Red Cross hospital, but otherwise nothing definitive discovered about her.

ß ă Щ  43552 Pte  2/6 Sherwood Foresters, also 99678 Kings Liverpool Regt. (HPN 9 Dec 1916; ‘After being in hospital for a long time on the south coast, he has returned to duty after ten days leave in Hathersage with his friends’). (DC 24/11/1917; Ill in Hospital). (DC 7/9/1918; wounded).  b1896 Hathersage, 1911C living with his grandparents at Fern Royd, Hathersage, and still at the same address per 1918 absent voters list.

Pte 200690 B Coy. Prince of Wales Volunteer Regt, South Lancs.  Enlisted 1/9/1914, wounded 21/12/1916 “When a shell hit the communication trench he was in, completely shattering his arm“ which was amputated. b 1882 (possibly in Hope, only appears on 1891C. His father was Joseph Swindells b 1857 Hathersage. 1861C at Barn i’th Wood, Note Car Lane, (near Harpur Lees) later census refer to it as  ‘The Barn in the Wood’ farm.