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Cpl 8221 Army Pay Corps. b 1884 Hathersage. 1911C in Sheffield an Assurance Agent. His father Edward James Wilson, was a Hackle Pin grinder in Hathersage.

✟ ≠ 19667 Pte. 1 Bn Notts & Derby’s (Sherwood Foresters). Enlisted at Buxton. Served in France from 2/5/1915. Reported missing, assumed killed 23/3/1918, confirmed killed 26/3/1918. (DC 5/10/1918– with a photo ’Had over three years’ service and had previously been wounded’). Grave, Ennemain Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France, which contains just 37 casualties. Ref; 11-A-8. Parents listed as Joseph and Martha Wilson (then later of Edge View, Eyam, although his father was no longer alive.)  b 1888 Hathersage, both his parents were b Hathersage. 1891C lived at Old Dale, Hathersage. 1901C living at Eyam, a boot riveter, with siblings William Henry, Sarah, Mary and Ernest, all born at Hathersage. 1911C living at Steeple House, Eyam. No military records have been found for his brothers, Eyam Museum does not think they were involved. Possibly they worked at the boot factory who applied for exemptions for several men, and who could well have been making Army boots. Brother in law to James Harling who married his sister Sarah b Hathersage. They were also in Eyam and in the shoe trade. James Harling’s death was reported on the same day as Joe’s, see above.

ß Щ 204575 Pte 11 Bn Notts & Derbys. The family were living at Bamford at the time of his enlistment and he worked for the Derwent Water Board. He enlisted 12/6/1917 sent to France 4/10/1917. Badly wounded 18/10/1917, gun shot to left leg, 70% disability. b Hathersage 1898, son of Jasper Wilson. 1911C living at Main Road, Hathersage. The family had lived in Hathersage since at least 1811.

ă 165959 Gnr C 232 AFA. Later 671828 Labour Corps.

b 1888 Sheffield. 1901C  at Birley Farm, Outseats, a farmer’s son, 1911C Birley Farm –farm worker. See WHW2W p 51 with photo, however he was NOT an uncle of Les Middleton as stated. Father George Wilson married Elizabeth Ann Cockayne, who had one child, George Arthur. She dies 1885, and George remarries Sarah Hannah Evans in 1886. Her three children were James Henry, Reginald & Ellen, (who married Arthur Noel Jessop see above). James Henry was the father of Kenneth Wilson, (d Oct 2015), of Greenwood farm, Noot Car Lane, off Sheffield Road.

(ß Щ Albert)  ă  46094 L/Cpl 12 Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regt., later attached to 252 Coy R.E,  &  1/7 West Yorks. (252 Coy R E was a tunnelling company). b 1885 Hathersage Booths. 1901C a building stone worker, living with sister Dora Ann and widowed father at Bank Top, Hathersage, (next door to Robert Charles Wilson). 1911C at Whim Cottage, a quarry man. 1919; Absent Voters register address still Whim Cottage, with his wife, Olive.

Hathersage. (DC 7/4/1917, ‘Helps on father’s farm of 110 acres and ploughman for Mr Spittlehouse granted 4 months exemption’).  (DC 18/8/1917 (age 18). ‘Granted a further 6 months exemption’) No more known.

ă  235176 Pte 1/6 North Staffs.(DC 21/9/18; ‘home on leave from France, returned on Wednesday’).  b 1896 Outseats. Brother of Willis. 1901C with family and parents Arthur and Elizabeth Ann, living at Nether Hurst Farm, Outseats. 1911C living with his aunt in Bamford, an errand-boy. He later lived at Brookfield Gamekeepers Cottage. His mother remarried, she became Elizabeth Ann Dalton with more children, and 1911C was living at Cliffe House Farm, Jaggers Lane, Hathersage.

✟ ß Щ  Enlisted at Buxton. 29011 Pte. 10 Bn Sherwood Foresters, ‘Nottingham Pals’.  Killed by an mine explosion under their trenches near the canal, during the batlle of “The Bluff”, St Eloi, Belgium, on 14/2/1916, age 20. Remembered on the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, panel 39-41. (See article & photo p 50 WHW2W). (DT 20/1/1917 ‘news has reached the parents in  Hathersage that Pte J Wilson, Sherwood Foresters, missing since 14/2/1916 is now officially listed as dead’) The J Wilson referred to is this Frank Wilson.

 

b 1894 Barnfield Cottages, Hathersage.  Lived at The Dale. 1901C living at Church Bank Top, with Millicent and Charles Robert, his siblings, widower father, Robert Charles Wilson (coal & corn carrier) and his mother Sarah’s father, Samuel Darwent. 1911C a farm labourer at Green’s House, Hathersage with Jesse Wragg & family. Also at one time a farm labourer at Highlow.

ß Щ At time of signing on in January 1915 he was living at 70 Swarcliffe Road, Sheffield, but was not called up until May 1918, 51988 Pte 6 Bn 9/2 Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt. (DC 21/9/18; ‘home on leave this week’). He went to France in October 1918 and was wounded on 4/11/1918, a week before the armistice, probably in the Battle of Sambre. Promoted to L/Cpl in Jan 1919 and transferred to 2 Bn West Riding Regt in July 1919 before being discharged in Oct 1919. b 1897 Hathersage, son of Robert Charles (coal & corn carrier), brother of Frank. 1901C living at Bank Top, Hathersage, with his siblings, widower father, and his mother Sarah’s father, Samuel Darwent. 1911C a farm labourer at Scraperlow Farm.  Oct 1919 living at Bank Top, Hathersage. He became a police officer in Sheffield, retiring with the rank of Superintendent. He married Gladys Martin in 1923, in Sheffield, and died in 1977 when he was living at 193 Twentywell Lane, Sheffield.

Pte 38213 E Coy Yorkshire Regt (Green Howards). Discharged early 1918 suffering from exhaustion and Psychosis (possibly shell shock?). b Brighouse 1887. 1911C a picture framer at Brighouse. His mother, Hannah Turner b Hathersage 1859.