Author: john

562395 Pte Kings Own Royal Lancashire Regt, fought in Salonika. 11 Bn, later 9 Bn. Seems to have seen most of his action in the Mediterranean theatre, in and out of hospital with minor ailments – some small military infractions, but 28 days field punishment for being drunk while mounting police duty. (Army record listed him as Geo Samuel Broclehurst). b 1892 Bugsworth, Derbys, 1911C living at Broomfield Cottage, Main Road, Hathersage, a pin grinder, with his mother Maria Lowe Worth (remarried).

ă  184018 Pte M T ASC 179. b 1892 Sheffield. 1911C a mechanic living in Sheffield with in-laws and his young wife, Lena Brown, but 1918 Absent Voters list shows his residence as Dale House, Hathersage.

45932 Pte. S Staffs 3 Bn. Enlisted May 1918 (having been called up and reported for duty in March 1917, but turned away as under age). He was attached to R Berks before returning to S Staffs and then demobbed Jan 1919. b 1901 Abney Grange, then moved with family to Holt Farm, Edale. Brother of Joseph Bramwell above.

50847 Northumberland Fusiliers, enrolled at Buxton on 16/9/1914 but discharged 26/11/1914 as considered medically unfit because of ‘irregular action of heart’. b 1890 Abney Grange. 1914 living at Holt Farm, Edale. Brother of Ritchie Bramwell below.

48914 Pte, Prince of Wales Own West Yorks Regt., later 68790 Royal Defence Corps. Guard at POW Camp, Deepcut. Discharged early in May 1918, due to ill health. b1884 Hathersage, his father William was a school master at Hathersage in 1880. 1911C living at Pudsey, Leeds.

Lt. 1/3 Bn Sussex Battery R F A. Fought in Mesopotamia.

b 1880. (D C 15/7/1916 ‘Charles Eyre Bradshaw Bowles J P of Abney and Wirksworth, announces his son Humphrey’s engagement to Mary Evelyn Mather of Worthing’) Charles Eyre Bowles was the family solicitor for many of the farming families in Abney.

ă  541682 Agri Sub Work. b 1879 Brampton Chesterfield, in 1911C at Booths Farm, Hathersage (farmer) and also there on 1918 Absent Voters list, wife; Agnes. He was probably late (& old) in being called up and this possibly only happened when his son Stewart (b 1902 Hathersage) was considered old enough to run the farm at home.

Д He was listed on the Hathersage Wesleyan Church Plaque, recognising those who had joined the forces, but nothing else has been discovered about his military history. b1888 in Bristol, he was a Railway Porter, who married December 1916 in Sheffield and died 1948. Their two sons were born at Station Road, Hathersage: Reginald J Boswell in 1920 and Charles E Boswell in 1922.

Pte 4185 3/4 Cheshire Regt T F discharged early on medical grounds. He had previously served in Volunteer Bn Gloucestershire Reg’t. b 1872 Glossop 1911C in Glossop a labourer, wife Pamelia Hodgkinson b Hathersage 1867. Example of another family who worked in the Hathersage needle factories, who eventually ended up moving to Leeds.

ß  ă  Щ  30893 Pte 2/4 East Lancs Regt. (DC  18/12/1917; Ill in Hospital), (DC 27/9/1918 – home on leave after recovering from Trench Foot). He is the flag bearer on the WHW2W photo p 54. b 1895 Hathersage. 1901C & 1911C living at School Lane, Hathersage with Elizabeth Smith (head of the household) and the Hallam family, together with his sister Myra, four years younger, children of Annie Booth (her mother was a ‘Broomhead’). Percy was a was a wire cutter in 1911. Address given as The Dale on 1918 Absent Voters list.