Hathersage Royal British Legion
1914-19 World War – The Hathersage Connections
ă 201950 Pte. 5 Royal Warwicks. Released from Military Service after only a few months due to ill health and placed on the T.A. list. b 1882 New Malden Surrey. 1911C living at Birmingham. Moved to Hathersage 9/4/1918; a representative for family firm of J E Beardshaw, Baltic Works, Sheffield. 1918 absent voters address; Hill View. (Station Road) Hathersage.
✟ ≠ Щ 478149 Spr 456 Field Coy R.E. Died of wounds 18/10/1917 age 22. (DC 20/11/1917 reported wounded & missing.) (DC 24/11/1917; ‘died from wounds at a clearing station in France. He has been on active service for 2½ years. His grandmother was Mrs Darwent Bank Top, Hathersage’). He is buried in Nine Elms British Cemetery, West Vlaaderen, Belgium. Nearly all the burial plots there were used by the 3rd Australian & 44th Casualty Clearing Station when they moved to Poperinge Sept 1917, until Dec 1917, for the Battle of Ypres. He is also remembered on the Darwent family grave in Hathersage Churchyard. b 1896 Hathersage. Mother was Minnie Darwent b1873. He was the grandson of Samuel Cocker who died 10/11/1908 age 67. 1911C living in Doncaster, a crane driver.
Driver RFA. No further detail. b1889 Hathersage. 1911C at Horsforth, a carter. His mother was Lucy Holmes, b1858 Hathersage. (Info from West Yorkshire Marriage & Banns). Father Thomas was b Eyam. 1896. Brother of BARNES, Clarence, BARNES, Isaac, and BARNES, Albert. Also of Harry b 1894, but no military found for him.
Enlisted 3/4/1915 RFC 6755 Air Mechanic 2nd class, later WO2. b1887 Hathersage. Moved to Horsforth, Yorkshire. 1911C at Horsforth a fitter, Brother of BARNES, Clarence, BARNES, Albert, and BARNES, Percy. Also of Harry b 1894, but no military found for him.
Cook M/10683, served on a variety of Ships. b Horsforth 1896. BARNES, Albert, BARNES, Isaac, and BARNES, Percy. Also of Harry b 1894 but no military found for him.
Stoker 1st Class K29661. Served on a variety of warships. b1892 Horsforth, 1911C at Horsforth, 1896. Brother of BARNES, Clarence, BARNES, Isaac, and BARNES, Percy. Also of Harry b 1894 but no military found for him.
669015 Plumber 166th Bn Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. Living in Toronto. b 1887 Stockton on Tees. 1891C living at Padley Wood Huts, Hathersage. His mother was Elizabeth Isabella Ball, wife of George Ball, who is remembered in Hathersage Churchyard, and who died Padley 24/3/1895, so not his father?
ă 2/Lt N Mid Div R.E. b 1888 Rotherham, 1911C living with parents in an eight roomed house at Saltergate, Bamford; a brass founders clerk, presumably in his father’s firm. Then on his Medal list and on the 1918 Absent Voters list living at; “The Winnats” Hathersage, (which is in Cannon Fields). 1933 shown as a Capt and a member of Hathersage British Legion.
✟≠ L/Cpl DLI no 20322 & 350933 2nd/6th Bn. Died of Wounds 3/9/1918, buried; Aire Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais. b1886 Leeds. 1911C at Armley, Leeds a valve fitter. Married Violet Nuttall b Hathersage 1888 daughter of Samuel Nuttall and Lydia Hickinson, both born Hathersage.
✟ Щ R/8104 Rifleman 1 Bn Kings Royal Rifle Corps. (Belper News 26/5/1916; ‘confirming his death, after being reported wounded and missing about 12 months ago. KIA during a bayonet charge at Festubert on 15/5/1915. He enlisted on 12/12/1914 and sent to France on 15/3/1915. The youngest son of the late Thomas Bagshaw of Harpur Lees, Hathersage’). Appears on Le Touret Memorial, France, Panel 32/33. He also appears on another memorial according to the inscription on Hathersage War Memorial.
b 1882 Abney. A Quarryman. 1891C living at Harper Lees, parents Thomas Bagshaw and Millicent Bagshaw. Moved to Hathersage as a boy and lived at Station Road, Hathersage, but by 1911C he was not in Hathersage. He later moved to Bacup Lancs where his wife Sarah Edith Bagshaw was living when he died and on his war gratuity payments in 1916 & 1919. N of K; J Bagshaw of 3 Waverley Ave, Thurcroft. Frank Priestley of Sheffield Road was also a relative.