DUNHEATH, Percy. OBE.

Capt “ L“ Signal Bn RE.  b 1886 Norton. 1911C a telephone engineer.  A true giant of electrical engineering, his books are still in print, and his portrait is in the National Gallery. In 1903 he was assistant to Athol Capron, (father of John Theodore Capron, above), President of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and International Electrical Commission. Percy must have lived in the village as his sister Violet was born Hathersage in 1895?

DUNGWORTH, (‘Skipper’) Lawrence. M.M.

ă Joined up for four years in the Derbyshire Yeomanry Territorial Force, at Heeley in Feb 1912, (Heeley was then in Derbyshire) before moving to Garner House Farm, Shatton, in Dec that year. Promoted L/Cpl then Cpl in 1914 and was 6 months in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. On his return he was admitted to Cardiff, Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital for 18 days with a less severe form of Typhoid. He then was posted from the 1/1 to 1/3 Regt of the Derbyshire Yeomanry, and in Feb 1916 to the 3 Mounted Brigade. The 1 Derbyshire Yeomanry fought in the very harsh Salonica (now Thessalonica) campaign on the Macedonia/Greek/ Bulgarian border. On 26/6/1917 while still a Cpl he was awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous gallantry in the field,  and was twice ‘Mentioned in Despatches.’ He then served in the UK until Feb 1918, when attached to the Scots Greys he became Riding Master at the Cadet School at Netheravon, Wiltshire. He was granted temporary 2/Lt commission in the Reserve Regt of the Dragoons in August that year, after already serverd nearly six years. WO 374/21232.

On Absent Voters list of 1918 he is  shown as; 75106 Cadet L.M.M., B Squad. No 1 Cav School, but this could be out of date information. He was gazetted out of the Service in Feb 1919, still single, his permanent address given as Garner House Farm, Shatton. He is listed on the Shatton side of Hope War Memorial, recognising those who served.

Callow Farm

b 1891 Norton, one of eight children and eldest son of Maurice and Mary Ellen (nee Ortton). 1901C living at Wellhead Road, Heeley, Norton parish. 1911C; living and working on Carfield Farm, Heeley, which has since been built over apart from a small area of allotments. Brother of Edgar Dungworth, above. In 1919 he married Alice Dearnaley at Worksop, and later moved from Garner House to Callow Farm, Highlow. They had two sons, Donald and Leslie, and daughters Margaret and Dorothy Alice. Donald qualified as a ‘Vet’ and had a distinguished career in Canada, Bristol (UK) and University of California before he died in Canada in 2005. Leslie lived at Fersby Hall Farm, near Conisborough.

Dorothy married John James Jewitt, but was tragically killed in a motor accident, together with her daughter, Alison Margaret Darnley on Ringinglow Road, Sheffield on 7/10/1974.  Lawrence had a cavalry regimental tattoo on his lower arm in the form of a horseshoe. In WW2 Lawrence formed a troop of Home Guard mounted on his horses, to stop them being taken for the Army! He judged several times at the ‘Horse of the Year Show’ at Olympia, London. He died in December 1965. His sister Rose Ellen married Arthur Singleton, (possibly related to the Hathersage buttons factory ‘Singletons’?).

DUNGWORTH, Edgar

ă Pte 58401 Leics Regt. On the Absent Voters list of 1918 he was shown as residing at Offerton, but without any  military information of active service on his records. Possibly invalided out as not fit for service?. He is listed on the Shatton side of Hope War Memorial, recognising those who served, but no other evidence of his military involvement has been found.  b 27 Sept 1896 Norton. 1911C, worked at Carfield Farm, Heeley as did his brother Lawrence Dungworth. Edgar emigrated to Canada in 1924.

DUFFIT, Thomas Burden

ă  T.T.O. 4082 Pte Army Veterinary Corps.  b 1870 Whitwell, Yorks. 1911C living in London, a drapers assistant. He lied on the census form about his age, (says b 1881) otherwise he would have been too old to enlist. His address on the 1918 Absent Voters list is, Main Road, Hathersage.

DRURY, Benjamin

⚜ ă  Щ 27363 15 West Yorks. Wounded just before the end of the war on 5/10/1918.

b 1892 Norton. Living at Bank Cottage, Main Road, Hathersage, at the time of enlistment. His address is shown as Besom Lane, Hathersage on the 1918 Absent Voters list. He had a younger brother Stanley b 1895, but no military record found for him.

DRONFIELD, Arthur

1912, signed on in the Navy for 12 years, K16172 Stoker. Invalided out, Feb 1915.   b 1892 at Froggatt, son of John Dronfield and Ann Elizabeth Burns. 1911C living at Eyam, a finisher at slipper factory. Married Ellen (Nellie) Russell, Jan 1917 at Sheffield and went to live at Bamford, but by 1919 was living at 4 Fern Royd, Hathersage, a ‘colliery fireman’.  His son Harold b 1918, went to USA, and his two daughters, Joan b 1919 and Barbara b 1928, were all born Hathersage. He died 1954 at Stanage Edge, Outseats. His daughter Barbara married Les Bradwell, and lived and raised their family in Hathersage.

DREW, John. M.M.

✟ ≠ 662 Pte 8 Bn Canadian Infantry. K.I.A. 28/4/1917 Vimy Ridge, while a stretcher bearer. Buried; Orchard Dump Cemetery, Arleux-en-Gobelle, Pass de Calais, France. Posthumously awarded MM for bravery on 18/5/1917. Full details; Canadian Great War Project and the family story on ‘Find A Grave’.

b 29/12/1892 Barnfield, Hathersage. 1901C the family is in Norfolk. In 1914 the family move to Keewatin, Ontario Canada. His brother George Drew (b Rugby), also served.

Note Sept 2015; came across C Drew KIA DC 5/5/1917 formerly of Bamford, but there is no C Drew from Bamford that fits (the only one was born in 1902) However it does fit our John Drew. Maybe C Drew was another brother? The C Drew mentioned as killed from Bamford  is in fact Charles Austin Gathergood, apparently for some reason he changed his name to Drew (which was his mother’s maiden name)

DREW, George

attested 1916; 802802 Trooper, Canadian Army Veterinary Corps 141st Bn (later absorbed into 18th Res Bn, according to the manifest of The Minnekahda). Returned to Canada 1919. (details ‘find a grave’) b 1895 Rugby, Warwicks. Brother of John Drew, below.

DOXEY, Abraham

✟ ≠ Originally 36 Labour Bn Royal Fusiliers, to 42378 Pte 13 Bn Notts & Derbys., and transferring to 116494 195 Coy Labour Corps. Killed 7/8/1917. Buried Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium.

b 1877 Darley Dale, living at time of enlistment at Barnfield Cottage, Hathersage, a stone cutter.