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Joined up in Canada in 1915 but rejected as under age, re-joined in 1917 No 2497831. b 1899 Boston, Lincs. His mother was Sarah Ellen Buttery b1860 in Hathersage, daughter of the village blacksmith, d1903. She married David Skerritt b Boston Lincs. 1891C living in Pitsmoor, Sheffield. Father David ended up in the hospital of Sheffield Workhouse and died in 1912. He and his brother Percy above, went into foster home or the workhouse and they were shipped to Canada in 1911 with a number of other orphans. Another brother, Harold, buried Hathersage 14/8/1891 only a few weeks old, (possibly died of the diphtheria epidemic in the village around this time). Cousin to James Luther and Percy Luther Buttery, Lancelot William Hancock, and Luther Priestley above.

2839 B Coy, 9 Bn Canadian Expeditionary Force. Wounded at Vimy Ridge and served in WW2 as a ‘Veterans Guard’. b1896 Spalding, Lincs. His mother was Sarah Ellen Buttery b1860 in Hathersage, daughter of the village blacksmith, died 1903. She married David Skerritt b Boston Lincs. 1891C living in Pitsmoor, Sheffield. Father David ended up in the hospital of Sheffield Workhouse and died in 1912. He and his brother Sydney, below, went into foster home or the workhouse and they were shipped to Canada in 1911 with a number of other orphans. Another brother, Harold, buried Hathersage 14/8/1891 only a few weeks old, (possibly died of the diphtheria epidemic in the village around this time) Cousin to James Luther and Percy Luther Buttery, Lancelot William Hancock, and Luther Priestley above. He had a son Clarence Percy, who served Pte Regina Rifle Regt in WW2 and was KIA , Normandy on 13/6/1944 age 21. He had two further sons who served in WW2, Robert with the 4th Armoured Division, and Douglas with the Royal Canadian Ordinance Corps

19181 Pte 1 Bn A I Regt  (Australian Imperial Regiment. A lot of early N Z troops were amalgamated with the Australian forces), served in France 30/7/1916-19/10/1918. Wounded (D C 13/4/18 ‘Formerly of Hathersage’). 1919 he was in King George‘s Hospital, Rotorua, NZ., and in 1920 he married Doris Crombie there. He died New Zealand in 1954, classed as a war pensioner.  b Hathersage 30/8/1893, son of William Peter Simpson, farmer and butcher. 1911C at Hare and Hounds, Sheffield Road, Hathersage. (DT 20/4/1912; ‘Geo Simpson, eldest son of Mr & Mrs W P Simpson of the Hare and Hounds Inn, embarked en route for Australia’). His father was living at 195 Broomhall Street, Sheffield at the time of his son’s enlistment in April 1916.

466028  Hussars. Lt 19 Dragoons, Canadian Army in 1914 at Edmonton Canada.  b1877 Sheffield. 1911C living at Holm Leigh, Station Road, Hathersage, a solicitor’s clerk. Emigrated 1913.

1328 8th Bn Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force.  b 1894 Curbar. 1901C at Crossland Road, father Abraham, family living at Bank Top, Hathersage, according to William’s Canadian enlistment papers. Brother of Arthur Siddall.

ă 27513 Pte 2 East Yorks. b 1896 at Middlethorpe Yorks. 1911C at Thirsk, a hair dressers apprentice. His sister Maggie on the 1911C is a servant at Nether Hall, Hathersage, which is Maurice’s address on 1918 absent voters list.

ß Щ He is probably mixed up with an Albert Siddall in the army records.  Nov 1916; L/Cpl A Siddall 12447 2 Bn Kings Royal Rifles reported wounded. Eventually promoted Cpl 12032 K.R.R. b 1887 Curbar, a quarryman, he lived 5 Mayfield Terrace, Hathersage and later at The Dale, Hathersage. Brother of William Siddall.

Щ Joined the Navy as a Midshipman in 1900. Promoted Lt Commander June 1913 and was in command of ‘HMS Foxhound’ destroyer off Gallipoli and helped the evacuation of the Army from Suvla & Cape Helles beaches. Retired in 1920 and recalled in WW2 until Sept 1945.  b 1883 Hathersage Hall. Died 1968. See article & photo p 52 WHW2W. Brother of Ashton Ashton Shuttleworth.

Nether Hall, a nurse at Hathersage Red Cross VAD hospital according to the Red Cross records. Wife of Ashton Ashton Shuttleworth.

ă Щ Major Derbyshire Yeomanry, living at Hathersage Hall when mobilised in August 1914. Served in Egypt, Gallipoli and Salonika. (HPN 9/12/1916; ‘Back at the Hall, after his long absence on foreign service’). He is on the Scouts War Memorial Board as the District Commissioner. (See article & photo p 51 WHW2W). b 4/7/1878 at Stoke Damerel, Devon, his father being stationed at Plymouth at the time.

Grandfather of Michael Shuttleworth and his brothers. Brother of William Shuttleworth.