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ă 1918  Absent voters list gives; 204573 A Coy 2 Plat Notts & Derbys. Medal card shows he was later transferred, G/72997 22 London Regt & Queens Royal West Surrey Regt (same number for both). (DC 14/9/1918, reported him wounded). Living at the George Hotel on 1918 Absent voters list where his name is spelt ‘Walley’. Otherwise no more detail have been found.

Acting CPL 13207 MGC, 21289 DLI. George fought at Loos, the Somme and Passchendaele but know none of the detail other than he was involved at Le Trone (?) Wood.

Wounded twice. (see pic of him on left, taken at a Military Hospital after Battle of Loos 1915. Note DLI cap badges). b 1895. 1911C a hammer heater in Sheffield. Son of Mary Standrin, (b 1874 Hathersage see pic c 1920s), who was tragically killed while re-wallpapering their home in 1930. She was stripping the old paper and placing the pieces in the large front pocket of her apron, when she leaned over the coal range. She died of burns in Sheffield Infirmary. George’s brother was Alfred above and his cousins were Fred Standrin, and John Willie Standrin, above. George Frederick married Florence Wright b Sheffield 1896, Their elder son George, b Sheffield 1920, served with Bomber Command in WW2.

Joined up 3/9/1914 (under age, it stated 19 on his form when in fact he was 16).  On his Army record the Medical Officer A.R Fordyce wrote ” Apparent age 19 years 60 days, I consider him fit for service”.  40151 East Yorks Regt before being transferred 29/12/1916 Sgt 13228  Y & L. Wounded; GSW left ear Oct 1915, GSW right arm July 1916, Gas Shell 8/11/1918 (just before the armistice) He also contracted ‘trench foot’ which resulted in him having one foot smaller than the other.  Awarded M.M.

b 1897 Sheffield. 1911C in Sheffield, a saw mill hand. Married Ethel Needham (née Ford) widow of Herbert Needham KIA. Alfred was the brother of George Frederick below and cousin of Fred Standrin and John Willie Standrin above, through his mother Mary Standrin, (b 1874 Hathersage).

Pte 21185 52 Bn KOYLI. b 1900 Sheffield, 1911C in Sheffield, his mother was Clara Wilson b 1873 Hathersage, 1881C living in Sheffield. 1871C her family living on London Road, (now Station Road), Hathersage.

b 1888 Hope Woodlands to parents John Webb (b Abney) & Sarah Alice Priestley (b Hathersage). 1901C living with grandparents at Abney Grange, 1911C living with father John at the ‘Pheasant Inn’, Sheffield Lane Top. According to family he emigrated to New Zealand without telling his father and enlisted at Hawkes Bay in 1916 with the New Zealand Forces. There is a Randolph Webb listed as serving but no more details, he got married in 1919 when he returned home. Half-brother of Arthur James above.

(known as ‘Frank’). ✟ Щ (He is incorrectly shown on the Hathersage War Memorial as ‘P Webb’ age 27). 40705 Pte 9 Bn Norfolk Regt. K.I.A. 23/4/1917 age 31. Grave; Vermelles British Cemetery, France,ref; 6-B-14. He also appears on another memorial somewhere according to the inscription on Hathersage War Memorial.  b1885, bap’t Hathersage Nov 1885.  Son of Ernest & Alice Webb of Hathersage. His family, Lewthwaites lived on Main Road, also related to Mrs M Wildsmith late of ‘Stonecroft’, Ninelands Road.  1901C living at Main Road near Besom Lane, Hathersage, a labourer in a steel wire works. 1911C he was a footman to Edward Simon Marcus (Stockbroker) living in Paddington, at 3 Ormes Court, Bayswater. He married Daisy Annie Bilson of 51 St Mary’s Road, Watford, Herts in 1915  and a son Frank Ernest was born in 1917, meaning James would never have seen him. The Webbs were a rather complicated family. There was a half-sister Mary Ann by his father Ernest’s first marriage, she lived with her grandparents at Abney Grange. James had three siblings; William Henry, Kate and Ernest (who died in Infancy). Following the death of his father in 1888 his mother Alice remarried in 1893 to a William Nicholson Lewthwaite, a labourer at Derwent Valley Water Board, and they had four daughters. Fox House which was originally named Fox’s House was a Shepherd’s stone hut.  The Shepherd being one George Fox who just happened to be the Great Grandfather of James Francis Webb.

Joins up in Yorks Regt in 1916. However 1/5/1918 was Court-Martialled; “when on Active Duty disobeying a lawful command by a superior officer“, a Conscientious Objector,  “Given 2 years imprisonment with hard labour. Sentence later commuted to 1 year. On 10/3/1919 Court-Martialled again for the same thing. On 17/6/1919 released and discharged from the Army.  Apparently Arthur James Webb was deeply religious which could account for his conscientious objections. b 1899 Derwent Hotel, Bamford, his father was John Webb b Abney, (Uncle to James Francis Webb below KIA). Mother was Carlotta. 1911C at the ‘Pheasant Inn’, Sheffield Lane Top. Half-brother of Randolph below.

Enlisted 1915 but failed his medical, remobilized Oct 1916, Pte D L I., 10 Scots Fusiliers and finally 19422 Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, based in Ireland.  b 1882 Spondon, Derbys.  A hawker he married Emma Turner b 1880 Hathersage in 1916. Her family was of Herbert Henry & Hannah Turner. 1911C Oddfellows Terrace, Hathersage.

ß Was in 2 Volunteer Bn Notts & Derbys, before enlisting on a short service with the Territorial Force  in July 1915. Assigned to various units and numbers. Served in France from 15/6/1917 to 15/8/1917. 4256 L/Cpl 4 Bn Y & L, transferred to 513388 R D C 2 Observer Corps. Discharged March 1918, reason not known.  b1889 The Dale Hathersage.  1911C living at The Old Dale, Hathersage, and at Coleford Road, Darnell at time of enlistment. Married Mabel Ford at East Dereham, Norfolk, on 20/8/1916. Brother of Henry Watts above and Myra, husband of Robert Alfred Hunter.

ß ă Щ  59311 Pte. R.A.M.C.  b 1878 Hathersage. 1911C living at Old Dale, Hathersage, a jobbing gardener. Brother of Isaac Watts below and Myra, husband of Robert Alfred Hunter. 1918 absent voters list address, The Dale.