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Pte 748036 5th Canada Mounted Rifles. D of W 9/4/1917 Écoivres Military Cemetery, near Arras.  b 1895 West Bromwich. 1911C in Canada. His mother was Lucy Hudson, b 1873 Hathersage. In the 1871C her father Joseph was proprietor of the Millstone Inn, Hathersage. She had four children who all went off to Canada in 1910, although earlier in 1910 the youngest child Norman was in the Hospital wing of the Workhouse in West Derby. Father Frederick nowhere to be found. 1911C mother, age 38; Inmate Walton on the Hill Workhouse, Liverpool.

✟ ≠ 27293 West Kents (Queens Own West Kent Regiment), 10 Bn (The Buffs).  K.I.A. 10/10/1918 and is buried in Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle D’Armentieres, Pas de Calais Nord. France.

Medal record indicates he also served in Palestine. He is also remembered on a Dover War memorial.  b1885 Sheffield, son of Edward and Selina Dodson. 1911C “The Gables” Hathersage Booths. The family originated from Darnall, Sheffield. He married Dorothy May Dodson of 7 Evelyn Court, Lansdown Terrace, Cheltenham. Joseph was late Balliol (Oxford), Liverpool, and Dover Colleges. brothers Joseph, Charles, Henry and James all studied at Oxford. (Joseph and Charles became School masters).

✟ ≠ 2/Lt  8 (Isle of Wight Rifles) Princess Beatrice Bn Territorials,  Hampshire Regt.  K.I.A. 27/6/1917 in France. Grave in Lebucquiere Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais. France.

b1887 Sheffield. 1911C, son of Edward and Selina Dodson, “The Gables” Hathersage Booths, but living at Sheffield Park, Sheffield by 1917. The family originated from Darnall,  brothers Joseph, Charles, Henry and James all studied at Oxford. (Joseph and Charles became School masters).

Capt. 5Bn Queens Royal West Surrey Regt, Plymouth College Territorial Force. He was responsible for OTC at Plymouth College. He did not seen action. b 1880, Sheffield, son of Edward and Selina Dodson. 1911C of “The Gables” Hathersage Booths. The family originated from Darnall, Sheffield, brothers Joseph, Charles, Henry and James all studied at Oxford. (Joseph and Charles became School masters).

54259 Dvr R F A.  b 1886 Thornham Norfolk. 1911C: A soldier’s servant/groom living at Brookfield Cottage, Outseats.

39329 Pte East Yorks Regt. (DC 17/8/1918.  ‘Returns from leave’). b 1897 Main Road, Hathersage, 1911C living on Station Road, with his grandparents the ‘Armfields’, whose daughter Elizabeth his mother, married John Ditton, (b1866 Chorlton, Lancs, a gas manager) in 1897. Whole family is living together in Hathersage 1911. His medals sent via his uncle, George Herbert Armfield.

✟ ≠ Enlisted under age as Wilton Dickinson, 2292 West Riding Division R.E., served 12 days April 1915 then placed with T A. Later becoming 53139 Pte  15 Bn Lancashire Fusiliers, also 231712 R.A.S.C.

KIA 10/8/1918, age 20. Buried Bouchoir New British Cemetery, Somme, France. b 1897 Rotherham. 1911C age 13, he was living at Station Road, Hathersage, with his father, Thompson and his mother Isabella. His mother Isabella (b Sheffield, d Sharwood House, Rotherham 5/12/1921 age 61). His father (b Rotherham, d Bridlington 2/12/1931) had married Pansy Woodcock in Bridlington Q4 1922.

ă  Cadet No 2 Cav School, later listed as 2/Lt Dragoons. (There is no other definite information). 1918 Absent Voters list address; Outseats. b 1899 Rotherham 1911C living in Rotherham.  Family owned the ‘Rotherham Advertiser’ which he ran for a number of years.

94021 Sgt Northumberland Fusiliers, ‘of Hathersage’. He also served in the RAF in WW2. He was born in Moscow in 1900, of English parents and was brought up in Russia – his English still had a slight Russian accent. He and his family left because of the Revolution. He came over with his sister Vera Edith Emily (1904-1991) in 1910 first class from the U S A. The naturalization Papers for Edward & Vera are a bit vague and do not mention nationality.  He first appears in Hathersage in 1918 when he applies for exemption from the army on the grounds that his English is not very good, but was told the best place to learn English would be in the Army, so exemption denied. (DC 7/9/1918). From 2/6/1918 to 11/1919 he was a soldier. He possibly started off in the 5/8 Bn (Res) D L I., but ended his service as an acting Sergeant in a Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers. Presumably because he could speak fluent Russian (and German) and they were taking part in the North Russia campaign (1919), where he saw some terrible scenes.

It is thought their father was Egmont Henry Roberts Del Strother, b 1871, d 1934 at Springvale Road, Sheffield, leaving his estate to Edward and Vera. In 1933 he marries Margaret Jessie Anthes (registered at Bakewell District). She was the daughter of Charles Anthes (see above).

During WW2 he was in the RAF 28/1/1940 – 17/2/1946. He first served in the South Yorkshire area, Barrage Balloon, then 941(WR) Squadron. By early August 1941 he was at Bletchley and very soon after was on intelligence work at their out-station at Cheadle, Staffs. By November 1942 he was a sergeant and serving in North Africa. Later movements are not known. He became a Flying Officer in September 1943 and by the end of his time he was again on intelligence work at Cheadle. (Number 870232, Personnel number 155283). Medals received; – 2xWW1, Africa star, Defence and another WW2 medal and the Air Defence medal.

During all this second war service his wife was living in Hathersage looking after her parents. He continued working as a civilian for the RAF on top secret intelligence work at Cheadle, and then RAF Digby, (Lincs) with his wife, until he died there in 1962, not long before he was due to retire. He and his wife were very involved with the Scouting movement, and both receiving the Scouting Order of Merit, while living in Lincs, the first husband and wife to receive a Bar to that award (August 1961).  (Most of this information came from Cathy Charles Anthe’s great-grand daughter).

Commissioned 2/Lt RE 1/9/1914 in Chatham, later based in Newark, sent overseas 1/7/1915 to Gallipoli. Went to Salonika 1916, awarded MC 1918. b 1893 Chelsea, another son of Sebastian Ziani and Gertrude Ruth (Ince) De Ferranti, founder of the famous Ferranti Electric Co. His father took up residence in 1905 at the Commercial Hotel, Grindleford before all the family moved to ‘Ingleside’, Nether Padley, and then in 1913 to Baslow Hall.  Later knighted, d 1980. Brother of Basil above and brother in law to William Pyecroft (below).