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SWIFT, Florence

b 1885 Sheffield. 1911C at 15 Wood Road, Hillsborough. A nurse at Longshaw Red Cross Hospital, and who also served at Birmingham and Killingbeck (Leeds) Military Hospitals.

SUNDERLAND, Fred

ă T/10460 A.B. Royal Navy, President Div III., (being his shore base station). Torpedoed twice!  Parents were tenants of the Ordnance Arms Hotel.  He was a bookmaker in Hathersage and qualified as a tailor, after an apprenticeship in the village. Brother of Albert Arthur & Mabel. 1919  Absent voters list address; Bank Top, Hathersage.

SUNDERLAND, Albert Arthur MC

ß ă Щ 36057 Pte Notts & Derbys, 104222 Pte Machine Gun Corps.  (HPN 30/12/1916; Cpl Albert Sunderland Sherwood Foresters, visited his home in Hathersage last week). He was at Ypres and was badly scarred from being blown into barbed wire in the trenches. 2/Lt 8 Tank Corps. (DC 21/9/1918; ‘Lt A Sunderland is home on leave this week from France’). Awarded M.C. London Gazette; promoted to Temp Lt 3/5/1919. Allowed assumed rank of Capt on demob.  b 1889 St Peter’s Parish, Sheffield. Brother of Fred & Mabel. Lived at Bell House, Hathersage. Jan 1916, married Edith Furniss, daughter of the landlord of the Bell Inn & the Scotsman‘s Pack. His parents were tenants of the Ordnance Arms Hotel. On demob, he and Edith lived on Mayfield Terrace for three weeks, (where they decorated and fitted it out completely for £300), before becoming landlord himself of the Scotsman’s Pack Inn.

STUBBS, John

Mary, Ida Alan, John

ß ă Щ  1918 Absent voters list; 167598 Pte, 378 Home Service. Labour Corps, (ex D L I.)

b 1879 Grindleford Bridge. On 1911C and 1918 absent voters list, living at Main Road, Hathersage, with his brother Joseph and family. Father of  754904 RAF Pilot Gordon Stubbs, who was killed (WW2) on 9/6/1941, and Alan Stubbs, who also served in WW2. Uncle to John Stubbs (Jnr), Percy, Ernest and Joseph William.

He is remembered on his son Gordon’s grave in Hathersage Churchyard, died 1961 age 82, also his wife Mary Hanna (née Wilson) who died in 1942 age 52, only 8 months after son Gordon was killed.

Hathersage Graveyard

STUBBS, John (Jnr)

ß ⚜ ă Щ  Enlists Newcastle 1915  12/18470 Pte, D L I. Went to France 4/4/1916. Promoted to Cpl. 18 Bn. (DC 12/5/1917 reported him with ‘a thigh shrapnel wound, in France, having joined up 12 months previously’). 29/1/1918 commissioned 2/Lt Notts & Derbys, (DC 9/3/1918; roll of honour with photo). (DC 24/8/1918; ‘of Machine Gun Section, returned from leave on Saturday’).  b 1893 Highlow, son of Joseph Stubbs, brother of Percy, Ernest, and Joseph William.  1901C & 1911C and on 1918 absent voters list, address is Main Road, Hathersage. Medals sent to Hillfoot House, Hathersage in 1923. A railway clerk with Midland Rail at Wicker Goods Depot, Sheffield. He married Mabel Brassington. He was secretary of Hathersage Bible Class Football Club.

STRICK, John Arkwright. Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur, DSO & CB

Major, brevet Colonel, Temp Major General, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. WW1 mentioned in despatches. Previously served in India where he took part in campaigns on the North-West Frontier.  b 1870 Stoke on Trent. Married Sept 1914 in Bombay to Iris Gwendoline Cammell, b 1889 London. 1901C living at Brookfield Manor, Hathersage. Their only child Capt. John Richard Strick was killed at Anzio 18/2/1944.

STOREY, Harold

✟ ≠  Pte 12/1378 (375).  12 Bn Y & L, (Sheffield City Battalion). On 26/27 June 1916 pre the Somme Big Push, he went out on a pre-attack patrol/raid. He was badly injured and died later on 28/6/1916 age 19.  (See p 152 “Sheffield City Battalion” book). Grave; Bertrancourt Military Cemetery, France.  b 1897  Hathersage. The family only seem to have been in Hathersage about 5/6 years before going to Sheffield. 1901C at 39 Bromley Street, Nether Thorpe. 1911C living at Churchill Road, Sheffield (a tenement with 5 rooms) as a machine knife maker (age 14). His parents were George, b Hounslet, and Jessie, b Sheffield, and his siblings; George, b 1895 Sheffield & Edith, b 1899 Hathersage.