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ß ă Щ  1918 Absent voters list; 167598 Pte, 378 Home Service. Labour Corps, (ex D L I.)

b 1879 Grindleford Bridge. On 1911C and 1918 absent voters list, living at Main Road, Hathersage, with his brother Joseph and family. Father of  754904 RAF Pilot Gordon Stubbs, who was killed (WW2) on 9/6/1941, and Alan Stubbs, who also served in WW2. Uncle to John Stubbs (Jnr), Percy, Ernest and Joseph William.

He is remembered on his son Gordon’s grave in Hathersage Churchyard, died 1961 age 82, also his wife Mary Hanna (née Wilson) who died in 1942 age 52, only 8 months after son Gordon was killed.

ß ⚜ ă Щ  Enlists Newcastle 1915  12/18470 Pte, D L I. Went to France 4/4/1916. Promoted to Cpl. 18 Bn. (DC 12/5/1917 reported him with ‘a thigh shrapnel wound, in France, having joined up 12 months previously’). 29/1/1918 commissioned 2/Lt Notts & Derbys, (DC 9/3/1918; roll of honour with photo). (DC 24/8/1918; ‘of Machine Gun Section, returned from leave on Saturday’).  b 1893 Highlow, son of Joseph Stubbs, brother of Percy, Ernest, and Joseph William.  1901C & 1911C and on 1918 absent voters list, address is Main Road, Hathersage. Medals sent to Hillfoot House, Hathersage in 1923. A railway clerk with Midland Rail at Wicker Goods Depot, Sheffield. He married Mabel Brassington. He was secretary of Hathersage Bible Class Football Club.

ß ă Щ  562147 Pte 626 Agri Coy.  b 1899 Hathersage. 1901C & 1911C living at Main Road, Hathersage. On 1918 absent voters list his address is; Hillfoot House, Hathersage. Son of Joseph Stubbs, brother of Percy, John (Jnr), and Joseph William Stubbs.

Major, brevet Colonel, Temp Major General, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. WW1 mentioned in despatches. Previously served in India where he took part in campaigns on the North-West Frontier.  b 1870 Stoke on Trent. Married Sept 1914 in Bombay to Iris Gwendoline Cammell, b 1889 London. 1901C living at Brookfield Manor, Hathersage. Their only child Capt. John Richard Strick was killed at Anzio 18/2/1944.

✟ ≠  Pte 12/1378 (375).  12 Bn Y & L, (Sheffield City Battalion). On 26/27 June 1916 pre the Somme Big Push, he went out on a pre-attack patrol/raid. He was badly injured and died later on 28/6/1916 age 19.  (See p 152 “Sheffield City Battalion” book). Grave; Bertrancourt Military Cemetery, France.  b 1897  Hathersage. The family only seem to have been in Hathersage about 5/6 years before going to Sheffield. 1901C at 39 Bromley Street, Nether Thorpe. 1911C living at Churchill Road, Sheffield (a tenement with 5 rooms) as a machine knife maker (age 14). His parents were George, b Hounslet, and Jessie, b Sheffield, and his siblings; George, b 1895 Sheffield & Edith, b 1899 Hathersage.

Pte  (DC 6/4/18, ‘Pte Arthur Steward, Hathersage, Wounded’). Otherwise no military record has been found for him. Possibly a relative of David Steward, Gamekeeper who lived at ‘The Dog Kennel’ Sheffield Road. (See p 33 Hathersage ‘Images of the Past’ which is wrongly captioned as; ‘Stewart’)

ă 52810 Pte West Yorkshire Regt, then 45296 K.O.Y.L.I. and eventually transferred to 509988 Pnr R.E. Transportation Branch, Inland Waterways, (towards the end of the war men were used for a variety of re-organizational purposes). On his enlistment papers his occupation was a ‘fireman’ later shown as a ‘furnaceman’.  b 1879 Canning Town, 1919 Voters Register address; Station Road, Hathersage. According to his Military Record he was living in Hathersage in 1918, married in 1915 to Eva Marrison b1885, and his son was born there in July 1918, but dies a month later of congenital syphilis! His son’s death certificate lists father Thomas as a coal-miner and his grandmother as Emily Smith. The address given is 3 The Hills, (Outseats). He seems to have moved back to Sheffield by 1920 and he then disappears entirely as his medals were returned. His wife and a second son remained in Sheffield. His wife Eva Marrison was the daughter of Emily Marrison, who remarries in 1913 to Harry Smith. Hence her name as grandmother to the dead child was Emily Smith. However it turns out that Thomas Stapleton was already married to an Annie Baxter (West Ham 1899). This could explain why he disappeared after the War?

Щ (WHW2W p 38). Joined the staff of Hathersage VAD Hospital in 1918, after working throughout the war in hospitals in Manchester. b 1887 Glossop. 1911C a cotton weaver, Glossop.

Pte 89142 DLI.  b 1900 Sheffield, brother of John Willie below. His father, John Robert Standrin, b 1865 in Hathersage and 1871C living at Bean Row, Hathersage. Brother to John Willie and Mary Standrin b 1874 Hathersage, mother of Alfred Westwood and George Frederick Westwood below. They are on the 1881C as ‘Standring’

Pte 61723 Res Bn Y & L, enlisted May 1917 but not called up till July 1918. Suffered from some degree of deafness. b 1899 in Sheffield, 1911C living in Sheffield, his mother was Theresa Wiggett b 1878 Hathersage.