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Pte 11025 6th Y & L. GSW to left arm in Dardanelles Campaign, caused him to be discharged early 3/10/1916. b 1888 Bamford. 1911C a labourer in Sheffield. His father was Samuel Walker b1860 Hathersage, 1871C of The Bank, Hathersage, before moving to Bamford and later to Sheffield.

Щ WHW2W p 38. b 1880 Sheffield. 1911C nurse at Sheffield Royal Hospital. A nurse at Hathersage VAD Hospital. She later nursed in Boulogne.

Щ Article & photo p 51 WHW2W.  He lived at the Bell House, next to the Parish Church according to WHW2W book, but it has not been possible to find any collaborating or additional evidence about him. There was a Thomas Arthur Vincent in the 1914 Voters Register, who was living at ‘Broadwood’, (Sheffield Road), and who attended Arthur Dobney King’s funeral in 1918 as a member of the Hope Valley Masonic lodge. ??

ACM (Aircrewman)  J 21387, served in the Mediterranean with the Navy. His last posting was HMS Pembroke II, which was a Royal Naval Air Station at Eastchurch. b 1898 Ticknall, Derbys. 1911C in Buxton. His father was John Thomas Upton, Hathersage village policeman who died 1909. (DT 17/10/1903 & 6/1/1906).

✟ ß ă Щ  12/535 L/Cpl  & 13 Bn Y & L..  (SDT 17/7/1914; wounded and in hospital). Later ‘missing presumed dead’. His wife Eleanor considered she was treated “shabbily  “ by the Army when trying to find out any information.

He died; 12/4/1918 age 26. Memorial; Ploegsteert, Belgium, panel 8. His next of kin was Frank Unwin, (probably his eldest brother) of 8 Ashburton Road, Sheffield.   b 1892 and baptised at Hathersage 12/6/1892. Father; Isaac, blacksmith, (b Eyam 1857 d 1927), mother Clara (Wood?) (b1860 d 1941), brother of George Stuart & Hubert. 1901 & 1911C a cotton manufacturers clerk, living at ‘Cotteswold’ Hathersage.

Pte 110391 B Coy 5th Reserve DLI. Enlisted 12/7/1918. b 1900 Hathersage. 1911C at Barnsley.  He must have been in the village for only a short time by 1901C is in Sheffield, age 8 months. The family seem to have moved around.

ß Щ Pte East Yorks, (DC 17/8/1918;  ‘Pte Hubert Unwin returns from leave’). b 1897 Hathersage. Brother of George Stuart & Reginald, Father; Isaac, blacksmith, (b Eyam 1857 d 1927), mother Clara (Wood?) (b1860 d1941). 1911C a general merchants clerk. His next of kin was Frank Unwin, (probably his eldest brother) of 8 Ashburton Road, Sheffield.

✟ ß Щ  2/Lt 11 Bn Sherwood Foresters. Enlisted at Buxton. (Shown in list of Servicemen in DT 2/1/1915 as in Oxfordshire Yeomanry). He only arrived in France 22/6/1916 and was killed 30/7/1916 age 27, while serving in the trenches near Bazentin le Petit.  Grave; Becourt Military Cemetery, Bedordel-Becourt, France. Ref; 1-U-16. It is believed he was a Chaplain in the Forces.

b 1889 & baptised Hathersage 7/4/1889. He earlier lived at the Old Smithy, (between the ‘Little John’ & the butchers shop) with his brother Reginald Unwin. Also brother of Hubert. Their ‘next of kin’ was Frank Unwin, (probably his eldest brother) of 8 Ashburton Road, Sheffield. 1911C living at ‘Cotteswold’ (‘Cotswold’) Hathersage, a solicitors clerk with four brothers and four sisters (all born Hathersage), remembered in the village as a Sunday School Teacher and was studying Holy Orders at Oxford. He was a playing member of Hathersage Cricket Club. Father; Isaac, a blacksmith, (b Eyam 1857 d 1927), mother Clara (Wood?) (b1860 d 1941).

Щ 39324 Pte, originally 4 Bn South Staffs, then 1 Bn Lincolnshire Regt. (He enlisted at a Sherwood Foresters Depot and was originally assigned there but given no number). See article & photo, p 51 WHW2W. Gassed. (DC 15/2/1919; Soldiers who have received their discharge papers included Stanley Underwood, Lincolnshire Regt).  b 22/9/1898 Holloway, Derbyshire. 1911C living at 15 Crossland Road, Hathersage. He later moved back to Holloway. Died in his 90’s.

He originally served a number of years before the WW1 with 12 Lancers. Re-enlisted 22483 Pte, placed on reserve cavalry list, but discharged six weeks later on 19/10/1914. It would seem he was never sure of his actual age, as various dates were given, but his birth was registered in 3^rd quarter 1871 at Outseats, Hathersage. 1881C gives his birth year as 1872 and living at Thorp, Outseats, with step-father Frank Robinson, fifty years older than himself. 1891C he was in the Lancers Cavalry Barracks, Hulme, Lancs, birth given as 1871. 1901C he was at Silkstone, Yorkshire, giving his birth as 1864. He married Esther Broadley in 1900 at Middlesbrough and had a son, George Allen. 1911C he was a ‘blastfurnace man’ and they were living at Middlesbrough, birth as 1864, yet in Army records in 1914, it showed 1869.