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Joined the Royal Navy; Ord Seaman SS9126 at Portsmouth on 9/7/1918. From 24/9/1918 to 8/11/1919 he served on HMS Furious, a cruiser converted into the first RN Aircraft Carrier. Went to Archangel, Russia in December 1919 as part of the evacuation of the ill-fated ‘North Russian Intervention’ by British, USA & other allied forces. He became Able Seaman and released to Royal Fleet Reserve on completion of his five year ‘short service’ contract on 9/7/1923. Mobilised again prior to WW2 on 28/9/1938 until 29/9/1945. b1900 Eyam Woodlands (Grindleford) son of Alfred Roberts b1867 at Fox House & Maria (Garlick) Thompson. Brother of Frederick Thompson and George Thompson above, and cousins of Alfred Thompson, John Thomas Thompson, Harold Thompson and William Henry Thompson.

ß ă Щ (HPN 30/12/1916; ‘L/Cpl John Thompson Sherwood Foresters, visited his home in Hathersage last week’). 1918 Absent voters, 104259 Cpl 2 AM R A F address The Dale. (DC 22/2/1919; Cpl Thompson has been discharged’). b 29/12/1878 Hathersage, His father was innkeeper at The Fox House Inn and his mother took over the licence after his death in 1895. The family later moved to Station Road, Hathersage. Brother of Harold, Alfred and William Henry and cousins of Frederick, George and Percy Roberts Thompson.  John Thomas married Beatrice Mary Schofield in 1906. 1911C living at Millstone Row, The Dale. He was a joiner, builder, decorator and undertaker.

ß Щ Pte 34524 9/6/2^nd K O Y L I (DC 10/10/1916; ‘youngest of four brothers serving with the colours, sons of Mrs T Thompson, Station Rd, (Hathersage), wounded in the back by shrapnel and is in Birkenhead Hospital’). Discharged 6/5/1918 because of disability.

b 4/4/1892 at Fox House, Hathersage son of Thomas and Elizabeth (White), and brother of John Thomas, William Henry & Alfred  and cousins of Frederick, George and Percy Roberts Thompson. His father was innkeeper at The Fox House Inn and his mother took over the licence after his death in 1895. The family later moved to Station Road, Hathersage. Harold was father of Alan, George, Derek and Mary.

Northumberland Fusiliers (and probably K O Y L I from the hat badge on his photo, a bandsman possibly a drummer).  (DC 18/11/1916 p1 & 4; wounded). (HPN 25/11/1916; ‘seriously wounded Oct 1916 in Somme Offensive’). He was buried for several hours after the trench was blown in by a shell, and was later removed to the base hospital at Sheffield  suffering from internal injuries and ulcerated eyes. His daughter said he had shrapnel injuries to his eye.    Otherwise it has not been possible to find out much more about his army career, other than he was a ‘bandsman’.  b 15 Jan 1896 Fox House, Hathersage, brother of Frederick Thompson above and Percy Roberts Thompson below. Son of Alfred Roberts & Maria (Garlick) Thompson, and cousins of Alfred Thompson, John Thomas Thompson, Harold Thompson and William Henry Thompson. . Listed on 1918 Absent voters shows him as living at Grindleford which gives no service information. He was a member of Grindleford Brass Band. He married Nellie Askham from Eyam in 1925. Died 2/6/1954.

21947 Pte K O Y L I. He joined up soon after outbreak of war, along with Cpl Enoch Hallam (Curbar) and Pte Fred Uttley who was killed in the engagement in which Frederick was himself severely wounded, in the Nov 1916 Somme Offensive. Frederick was buried for several hours after the trench was blown in by a shell, and was later removed to the Sheffield Base Hospital, suffering from internal injuries and ulcerated eyes. He returned to a Military Hospital in Blackpool. (DC 18/11/1916 p1 & 4; wounded).  b 16/12/1894 at Fox House, Hathersage, brother of George and Percy Roberts Thompson, sons of Alfred Roberts & Maria (Garlick) Thompson and cousins of Alfred, John Thomas, Harold and William Henry Thompson. His sister Agnes married James Hulley, shown on this photo with Frederick, Enoch Hallam and possible Fred Uttley. He was a member of Grindleford Brass band.

He married Florence Wood from Eyam in 1919 and died at Eyam in 1975.

ă 785056 C Battery R.F.A. Joined up in 1909 at Norfolk Barracks, Sheffield. 591 Gnr  1/3 West Riding Brigade R .F.A. (T) 9 Battery. Discharged after serving 7 yrs 15 days on 4/4/1916, his intended place of residence then shown as ‘Brick Huts’, Grindleford, (actually Padley, Hathersage), where his mother and Annie Hounam were living in 1911C. These were probably the cottages built for railway construction workers and later Bole Hill quarry workers, where stone for the Howden & Derwent dams was excavated, early 20thC. b Blackpool Aug 1886. Also lived in Bury, Lancs. His mother was Kate Hounam, (she became Thompson and later Allen). 1891 Benj Thompson was living with his grandfather George Hounam. (‘Hope Valley Line’ book p 174; ‘Feb 1893 a Benjamin Thompson suffered from smallpox and was taken to Bakewell Workhouse’). 1901C, living with Uncle William Hounam, at Sheffield. It is thought he married Lily Staniforth, in 1908. There were two children. Lillian, b 1911 Ecclesall Bierlow, and Harold B, b 1913 died 1918. Both births registered in Bakewell District.  He possibly went to Canada as quite a few of the family did. There was also a brother John Hadfield Thompson who served with the East Yorks Regt, but in 1914, before war broke out he went to Canada. He had a half-sister Emma, born out of wedlock in 1911, she was a servant at Stoke, Grindleford. Lily Hounam, his cousin, married George Blagden in Canada (see above).

Enlisted 3/9/1914, 12537 Pte 8 Bn Y & L., later L/Cpl, 3 Y & L. Served in France and Italy. Demobbed 16 Feb 1919 + 28 days furlong i.e., 20/3/1919. b 7 Aug 1887 Piper House, Near Fox House, Hathersage, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, brother of John Thomas, William Henry & Harold, and cousins of Frederick, George and Percy Roberts Thompson. His father was innkeeper at The Fox House Inn and his mother took over the licence after his death in 1895. 1911C the family were later living on Station Road, Hathersage, Alfred being a farm labourer.  He married Clara Green on 13 Apr 1915, (after enlisting), when she was living at ‘Woodcote’ Abbey Lane, Beauchief.

Щ  V.A.D. Hathersage Red Cross Hospital. (see p 41 WHW2W).  b 1887 Hillsborough. 1911C “Ketherby” (Probably Netherby), Castleton Road, Outseats, with her father, Henry Hawksley Taylor and mother Clara Louisa (above).  In autumn 1919 all were living at Barnfield House. She died in 1976, at Cliffe Cottage, Hathersage. Her brother Stephen George, who was 22 at the 1911C, did not appear to serve. He was in the cutlery trade, and as such was probably considered to be in a reserved occupation.

Pioneer 220290 no 3 Special Coy R E. Badly Gassed 10/4/1918 when a shell exploded in the ammunition dump, where he was fitting fuses at the time. Commemorated on the St Peter’s Church Roll of Honour, Abbeydale Road, Sheffield (demolished in 2003).  b 1894 Bridlington 1911C in Sheffield, an Analytical Chemist. brother of Arthur Stanley above, their mother was Rosanna Grayson b 1862 Hathersage 1871C at Sheffield Road, Hathersage. This roll of honour is now in St Peter & St Oswald’s Church, Abbeydale Road. See pictures.

ß Щ This could be Sgt or L/Cpl Taylor of A Coy 5 Volunteer (Hathersage) Battalion, who attended Arthur Dobney King’s funeral, Nov 1918.