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ß ⚜ Щ Д  (DC 28/1/1922 listed among Methodist Church Members who had served),  Also on the Scouts Memorial Board as Notts & Derbys. (DC 28/6 /1922, listed as served but no details). b 1900,  2 Station Road, Hathersage. Brother of Albert Prince. 1911C living in Hathersage with Albert & two sisters. Member of Hathersage British Legion committee in 1943.  25/5/2015 some info from granddaughter of William Hickinson  and great niece of John Cotterill Hickinson;- “Dad mentioned the Prince family as being relatives, Herbert was married to a Hickinson – apparently he visited them regularly in Barnfield Cottages (no 7) and grandad would cut his hair for him”.

ß Щ 12511 8 Y & L. Discharged early; Feb 1915 on medical grounds. b1894 Bonsal, Derbyshire, lived in Chinley before moving to  2 Station Road, Hathersage in 1900. Brother of Herbert Prince.

✟ Щ Enlisted at Derby, 201848 Pte 12 Bn Royal Scots Fusiliers (Ayr & Lanark Yeomanry). K.I.A.  19/7/1918 age 20.  Commemorated at Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium and on Grindleford War Memorial.

b 1898 and baptised 10/7/1898 at Hathersage.  Lived at White Edge Lodge, Longshaw, & Stoney Ridge Farm, Longshaw.  Son of Septimus and Emily Jane Priestley (née Buttery) of White Edge Lodge. A relative was Mrs A Haslam, Barbridge Farm, Fox House. 1901C living at Strawberry Lee, Totley, with his mother and siblings; John (twin) and Harold, age 1. All b Hathersage except Harold b (Totley?) Dore. 1911C all living at White Edge Lodge plus Archie (8) b Dore & Dorothy Evelyn (5) b Hathersage. He was cousin to James Luther Buttery and Percy Luther Buttery, and Lancelot William Hancock above, and to Percy and Sydney Skerritt below.

 ß Щ Z/12959 R N V R. (DC 22/2/1919, ‘has been discharged last week’).  b 1898 Whitehouse Farm, Hathersage (he was there on the 1911C & 1919 Voters register)

ß ă Щ Originally joined Notts & Derbys in 1915 but failed on medical grounds. Placed on the reserve list and later remobilized and joined the 433 Coy  A S C, then 60348  411 Agri Coy. Transferred 13/10/1918 275182 Dr to 501 Agri Coy. b 1892 Hathersage 1911C living at Mitchell Field, a farm hand .

✟ ≠ 214623 Pte  2/6 Bn Notts & Derbys. D of W 19/4/18. Grave Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Boulogne Sur Mer, Pas de Calais, France.  Also remembered on Derwent & Woodlands War Memorial. b 1897 Derwent, son of David Priestley, b 1864 Hathersage. David had two other sons, George b 1894 Derwent and Ernest b 1898 Derwent, but no military records have been found of these. 1911C all living at Jubilee Cottages, Derwent.

ă RX 4/263377 Pte 49 Regt Sqdn A S C.  b 1891 Hathersage. 1911C working at White House Farm, Hathersage. On 1918 Absent voters his address; Callow Farm, Hathersage.

307223 Pte Army Service Corps. b 1882 Chapeltown. 1911C in Ranby Road, Sheffield, a clerk. Living at Grindleford at time of enlistment in 1915. Married to Annie Gilby Brougham, b 1878 Sheffield. Her father was William Brougham of 11 Crossland Road, Hathersage, who died in 1923 age 82 (Obituary DT 20/1/1923) and who was a part time Methodist Minister, living in Hathersage during the war. He also had three sons, John, William and Joe, but no military records found for them. Alfred Thompson died in 1950 also at 11 Crossland Road, Hathersage, as did his wife in 1966.

Д b 1889 Sheffield. 1911C living at Park Edge, Hathersage, she married the vicar of Bakewell, the Rev John Newbould, who died Dec 1918. Red Cross record; a nurse at Hathersage VAD hospital, transferred to Special Service Manchester.

W. 478492 Spr R E. (T) 2961 R E. b1898 Hathersage. 1911C living at Dronfield.