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Д  (DC 28/1/1922 listed among Methodist Church Members who had served).  554941 Rifleman 16 London Rifles.  b 1898 Farnworth, Lancs.  (DT 19/10/1918 p5 reported he had been wounded. ‘He is in the Queen’s Westminster Rifles’). 1911C at Bath (school). His father was Rev H Stanley Sandford, the Hathersage Wesleyan Minister from 1913.

158020 RN Ships Carpenter. b 1891 Glossop. 1911C in Glossop a joiner. His mother was Mary Alice Hallam, b Hathersage

Lt., R.E.  b 1897 Plympton, Devon. 1911C, living at Buxton. His father Edward was an engineer for the Derwent Valley Water Board, living in 1912 at Hillside, (presumably Back Lane) Hathersage.

ă 100479 Cpl 200 S.B., R G A. Commissioned 23/6/1917, 2/Lt. 508 (S) Bty. R G A. Went to France 31/10/1916. b 1883 Howden, Nr Hull, died 30/1/1971 at Jaggers, Jaggers Lane, Hathersage. 1911C living at Hull, an architect’s assistant. Married Marion Isabel Hill, (b1887, d 17/12/1963), in 1911 at Sculcoates, Yorks East Riding. His 1918 absent voters address was Roslyn Crescent, Hathersage. They later lived at Lady Hayes, Cannon Fields, Hathersage. Their daughter Freda Isabel was killed in a climbing accident at Dinas Cromlech, Snowdonia on 30/10/1949 and her parents endowed a stained-glass window in her memory in Hathersage Parish Church.  On her death mother Marion Isabel Rylatt provided for a charitable trust fund, which still exists, for the benefit poor and deserving widows in Hathersage and Outseats.

✟ ≠ A sailor who enlisted in 1914 in Melbourne, 1402 Pte 14th Bn Australian Imperial Force. D of W on the Hospital ship ‘Devanha’ on 10/8/1915 age 19, having been shot by a sniper following the battle on Lone Pine, Gallipoli, and was buried at sea off Mudras Harbour.  b 1896 Rixton Lancs.  His mother was Mary Ann Williamson Fox b 1865 Callow Farm, Highlow. Her great grandfather was George Fox after whom Fox House was reputed to be named. (DC 25/3/1893; ‘The family farmed Callow for generations’).  She married twice. 1881 to Thomas Shorrocks, and 1895 to Charles Rowles. 1901C the family are living in Rixton Lancs, his mother died 1909, Manchester. 1911C Giles is listed as ‘Bowles’ living with his Aunt at Cardiff.

285160 Pte R A S C (MT).  b 1887 Newtown Row, Hathersage. 1911C living at Linthwaite, Yorks., son of William (b 1849 Brampton, Chesterfield) & Sarah Ann (b1850 Southwell, Notts.) who were in 1881C living ‘near the Thatched Tavern’, Hathersage Booths, and 1891C at Newtown Row. John William was the brother-in-law to William Bower above, whose wife Gladys Rowbottom, b 1884 Hathersage, and who died during WW1 on 24/6/1916, was his sister.

Pte 216710 Packers & Loaders Section RASC T4.  b 1884 at Darley Dale. 1911C at Hayfield a  Dock Labourer. His wife was Harriett Anne Slack b1886 Hathersage. The Slack family farm was “Greenwood“, Note Car Lane, Harper Lees, Hathersage.

✟ ≠ Lt 22 Bn Manchester Regiment. Joined up in July 1915, was wounded in Dec 1916 and returned to his unit in April 1917 and promoted full Lt in May. D of W 7/10/17. Grave; Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, France. b 1895 Sale, Cheshire. Only son of Philip Harvey and Emily Ross of Longley. Educated at Oak View Boarding School Hathersage and Manchester. Passed 2^nd Div Civil Service Exam, employed at the Admiralty, London. Parents had moved to Tunbridge Wells by 1917.

Gazetted 1915 2/Lt Kent Fortress Engineer.  Acting Captain Royal Monmouthshire Regt.  Saw service in Gallipoli, Palestine, Middle East and France. Awarded O.B.E. (His son of the same name won the D.S.O. for his part in the D Day Landings in WW2). b 1880, Wivelscombe Devon. 1911C living at Cannonfields, Hathersage.  Resident Engineer for the Derwent Dam.

ă 796145 Gnr 49 D &M Battery R A., R F A,  later Tank Corps. b 1894 Horsforth, Leeds. (Arthur Roose is in fact Arthur Holmes, the illegitimate son of Phyllis Holmes (b Hathersage), who later marries Thomas Roose. 1911C the family are living at Padley, Hathersage.  Various records alternate between ‘Roose’ & ‘Holmes’. His 1918 absent voters address is ‘Grindleford’.