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He didn’t serve. DC 10/3/1917 (40) married. Class C3, 2 months exemption granted provided he found work of national importance. DC 24/7/1917;  It is believed he is the Insurance Agent listed as exempt. DC 19/1/1918 (41). Class 3. Auctioneer & Valuer. Granted 6 Months exemption. The conditions of his previous exemption had been complied with. DC 28/9/1918 granted a further 4 months.

b 1876 Hathersage. 1911C Roslyn Crescent, a Coal Merchant, married to Edith Mary Swain with children; Harry and Mary. Brother of George Herbert Armfield (who did serve) & Frederick Percy.

Played in Hathersage football team, Percy Armfield b 1887 Shrewsbury. 1911C a boarder in Shropshire. By 1912 back in Hathersage –(newspaper report Sheffield Telegraph 4 Nov 1912). Brother of George Herbert, & Ralph Joseph (Auctioneer; exempted). He was christened Frederick Percy; it is believed he served, but nothing has been found.

Pte 300574 5th London Regt , 512875 Labour Corps.  b 1891 Forest Green Essex. 1911C in Essex a clerk. His father William Henry Frith b 1855 Hathersage a Stationary Engine driver.

✟ ≠ Pte Y & L (wounded by sniper DC 25/12/1915). 15237 L Cpl, A Coy, 13th Bn Yorkshire Regt. KIA 22/3/1918 at St Leger, buried Arras Memorial, Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery, Arras. fought in Egypt and Gallipoli, wounded three times. b 1886 Sheffield. A clerk, brother in law Benjamin Parkinson, Castleton Road, Hathersage. All evidence suggests he lived a nomadic life.  Probate record of 23 November 1918 states he was living at 5 Crossland Road Hathersage at the time of his death, when his effects of £3,407.18.1d were left to his brother Thomas Bevan Fox.  No reports of his death in the Sheffield or Derbyshire newspapers, but according to his Army records he enlisted in Scarborough and was living in Bristol at the time, (this seems to fit in with his “nomadic“ lifestyle). His father was also Charles James Fox b 1855/56 in China to British parents, mother Emma Carr b 1855/56 Hull. 1881C living in Sheffield. His father died Sheffield 1890, consequently C J and his siblings were shipped off around the country to various relatives and orphanages. His siblings (all born Sheffield were, Joseph Glenn (ended up in Lincolnshire) Thomas Bevan, a pharmacist in London, who was named as CJ’s next of kin on the Register of Soldier’s Effects, and Susan Eliza who married Benjamin Parkinson, three of whose four children being born in Hathersage, Benjamin J – 1912, William – 1914, Charles A – 1915, and Thomas Glen-  b1911 Doncaster.

Pte 21653 1st Garrison Bn, Manchester Regt. He had a few issues with drunkenness, posted to Singapore in later stages of the war and stayed a soldier untill March 1920. b 1878 Hathersage. 1911C at North Manchester School, a caretaker. His mother was Mary Wiggett, b Hathersage 1858. Quite a few of the family Moved to Canada.

Before WW1 he had already served in the Army Dragoons in South Africa, then Pte 4694 3rd Coldstream Guards, L/Cpl P5267 Military Mounted Police Corps. (“Narrow Escape” Sheffield Independent 15/10/1915). b 1882 Sheffield,1911C a police officer in Sheffield living with mother-in-law; Millicent Barber (née Higginbottom) b Hathersage 1847.

Pte 322650 ASC Mechanical Transport.  b 1891 Leeds, 1911C a butcher in Leeds, his mother was Frances (Fanny) Richmond, b Hathersage 1867.

1915 Sgt 21063 11Bn Canadian Expeditionary Force, Later Capt 25 Bn Royal Fusiliers (details; Cambridge Alumni). b 1878 Newferry, Cheshire.  1901C in Wales a theological student. Ordained Priest but 1908 disappears, then after WW1 returns to Priesthood. Brother of Charles Stuart Ford above. Their mother was Mary Jane Turner b1844 Hathersage. Her father, Isaac B Turner was appointed to the Curacy of Hathersage (20/5/1843 Oxford Chronicle).

A serving soldier prior to WW1, 8 years Royal Scots Grays, 5 years Bedfordshire Regt. Later Capt Ottawa Highlanders, wounded. b1879 Newferry, Cheshire. Brother of Roger Anson Ford below. Their mother was Mary Jane Turner b1844 Hathersage. Her father, Isaac B Turner was appointed to the Curacy of Hathersage (20/5/1843 Oxford Chronicle).

Pte 18635 9th Y & L.  (SDT 16/7/1916; formerly resided at Barnfield Cottages, Hathersage, wounded. His arm was shattered by a shell). Awarded DCM and discharged 12/11/1917. Quarryman, b1882/1883 Liverpool. 1909 Married at Hathersage, Lily Schofield (Hallam) b1885 d1932, daughter of Selina Schofield who later married James Hallam. 1911C William and Lily are living at Rotherham Road, Sheffield.