Author: john

SWINDELL, William

attested 29/7/1916, 56019 Pte  19 Bn Notts & Derbys, 29778  25 Bn DLI, 166778 Labour Corps. b 1879 Crich, 1911C a stone cutter at Whatstandwell.  Father Samuel Swindell, b Hathersage. 1861C family at the Toll Bar Cottage, Hathersage, brother of Frederick and Samuel, above. 1911C father working in Wigston, Leics, a labourer and widower.

SWINDELL, Samuel

91798 Pte RAMC, attested 21/12/1916, discharged 1/11/1917 due to arthritis. b 1881 Ripley. 1911C at Belper, a fish fryer. Father; Samuel Swindell, b Hathersage. 1861C family at the Toll Bar Cottage, Hathersage, brother of Frederick, above and William, below. 1911C father working in Wigston, Leics, a labourer and widower.

SWINDELL, Frederick (Fred)

1414 Pte West Yorkshire Regt, 2 Leeds Bn, 659475 Dvr Labour Corps. b 1885 Ripley, not on 1911C but was working at Moss Farm, Dore when he joined up. Father Samuel Swindell, b1852 Hathersage. 1861C family at the Toll Bar Cottage, Hathersage, brother of Samuel and William below. 1911C father working in Wigston, Leics, a labourer and widower.

SWIFT, Westby

314012 Gnr R.G.A. South Midlands Battery, from 1914 to 1920. Went to France on 31/3/1915.

b Jan 1894 Highlow, son of Alfred, (b 1867 Grindleford/ Eyam Woodlands) a bootmaker, and Ann Eliza Bagshawe, (b 1870 Hathersage). Brother of Thomas Alfred. 1911C living at Northfield, Worcs. He married Ada Elizabeth Gibbs in 1919 and died in 1963 at Birmingham. Brother of Thomas Albert.

SWIFT, Thomas Alfred

Enlisted in Territorial Force 3/9/1914, 1554 Trumpeter, Imperial 2 Service Bn R F A. It would seem he lied about his age being 20 when enlisting! b 1895 Highlow, son of Alfred, (b 1867 Grindleford/ Eyam Woodlands) a bootmaker and Ann Eliza Bagshawe, (b 1870 Hathersage). Brother of Westby. 1901C, living at Northfield, Worcs. He married Edith May Potter in 1913 and died Mar 1958 age 62.

SWIFT, Florence

b 1885 Sheffield. 1911C at 15 Wood Road, Hillsborough. A nurse at Longshaw Red Cross Hospital, and who also served at Birmingham and Killingbeck (Leeds) Military Hospitals.

SUNDERLAND, Fred

ă T/10460 A.B. Royal Navy, President Div III., (being his shore base station). Torpedoed twice!  Parents were tenants of the Ordnance Arms Hotel.  He was a bookmaker in Hathersage and qualified as a tailor, after an apprenticeship in the village. Brother of Albert Arthur & Mabel. 1919  Absent voters list address; Bank Top, Hathersage.

SUNDERLAND, Albert Arthur MC

ß ă Щ 36057 Pte Notts & Derbys, 104222 Pte Machine Gun Corps.  (HPN 30/12/1916; Cpl Albert Sunderland Sherwood Foresters, visited his home in Hathersage last week). He was at Ypres and was badly scarred from being blown into barbed wire in the trenches. 2/Lt 8 Tank Corps. (DC 21/9/1918; ‘Lt A Sunderland is home on leave this week from France’). Awarded M.C. London Gazette; promoted to Temp Lt 3/5/1919. Allowed assumed rank of Capt on demob.  b 1889 St Peter’s Parish, Sheffield. Brother of Fred & Mabel. Lived at Bell House, Hathersage. Jan 1916, married Edith Furniss, daughter of the landlord of the Bell Inn & the Scotsman‘s Pack. His parents were tenants of the Ordnance Arms Hotel. On demob, he and Edith lived on Mayfield Terrace for three weeks, (where they decorated and fitted it out completely for £300), before becoming landlord himself of the Scotsman’s Pack Inn.