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(née Pearson). b Belton, Lincs. 1911C at Main Road, Hathersage. Red Cross record; Bank Cottage, Hathersage, caretaker in charge of furnaces & assisted in cleaning at Hathersage VAD Hospital.

Pte 7004 West Yorks Regt, 45617 KOYLI, 194730 D.L.I. Labour Corps. Kept getting moved to various Regiments, suffered from ill health. Never saw action. b 1878 Yeadon, Leeds, 1911C a wool warehouseman in Eccleshill, Yorks. His wife was Mary Ann Elizabeth Woodall, b 1879 Hathersage.

Pte 7645 Alexandra’s Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Regt. Enlisted 5/10/1914, discharged early 24/3/1916 on medical grounds. b 1882 North Ormesby. 1911C at Middlesbrough. Husband of Alice Green b 1891 Hathersage, who 1891C living at Wood Hut, Bakewell Road.  Which suggests her father Charles was among the people who built the railway.

ă Д  (DC 28/1/1922 listed among Methodist Church Members who had served), 2020/6/1916 enlisted 52800 Pte 25 Provisional East Yorks Regiment, later transferred to 27 Bn D L I, and then to 5 Reserve Bn no 375718.  In 1917 M/404737 Pte was at M T Training Depot R.A.S.C. Isleworth. Discharged 13/2/1919 to reserves. b1882 Manby, Lincs.  A gardener living at Outseats at time of enlistment. Spring 1919 electors register address; The Hill, Outseats. Wife; Harriett.

✟ ă Щ  77477 Gnr 160 Siege Battery, R.G.A. Enlisted while living at Hogg Hall, Hathersage. (DC 14/8/1917 listed ‘ill in hospital’). Died in Rouen of influenza 1/11/1918 age 33. Buried in St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France, ref; 5-2-BB-17. b 1886 West Marton, Yorks, son of Francis & Sarah Wallace of Skipton, Yorks. 1911C; William Wallace was a Police Constable in Leeds, before turning up in Hathersage as a gamekeeper on the Duke of Devonshire’s estate, living at Highlow with his wife of five years, Jeannie Ann, age 24 of 27 David Street, Kirckaldy, Fifeshire. No children.  1914 Voters register address; Hazelford, later at Kettleworth. Brother of Gnr Major Richard Wallace R.G.A. who D of W (received in 1916)27/10/1918, but with no other Hathersage connection. (Major Richard Wallace was actually his full name; his rank was Gunner). All three brothers fought on the Somme. On Hathersage War Memorial it is wrongly stated William was in the R.F.A. with no known relatives.

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.