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Able Seaman J 11903. joined the Navy in 1912 and served till 1919. b 1894, brother of John A, Arthur Edward, and William Alban. Their father was John Abram Slinn b 1865 Hathersage and 1871C living on Oddfellows Row, Hathersage, and their mother Sarah Ann Melland, elder sister of Hannah Maria the wife of Gilbert James McIlwrick above.

ß Щ It has not proved possible to discover his military record.  b 1889 Hathersage. 1911C at 9 Roslyn Road, Hathersage, a tobacco machine maker. Possibly worked in Munitions during the conflict?

ß ⚜ ă Щ Originally 302806 Pte 2/8  D L I (non combatant due to defective vision). 2/7/1917 reassessed and transferred to 109958 2/7 D L I., line infantry. (DC 21/9/18; ‘home on leave this week’).  Fought in Russia 1918/1919. b 1896 Hathersage. 1911C at Oddfellows Row, Hathersage, a bobbin carrier. 1918 absent voters address; Oddfellows Road. 1919 absent voters address; Station Road.

M2/113162 Pte R A S C. MT. b 1893 Leicester, son of William Ansty Sleath.  Married Esther Eliza Blagden (b 1895 Hathersage) in May 1917 at Hathersage.  Samuel & Teresa Blagden were witnesses at the wedding. Father of Frederick (b Hathersage Jan 1917). His wife’s father Thomas was a gardener and she had five brothers, Thomas, George, Arthur, John William, and Samuel. They and their mother Mary were all born in Hathersage and lived on Oddfellows Row (1901C).

née Finlay. b 1859 Islington. 1911C at Throstles Nest, Hathersage, a widow. Red Cross record; general duties at Hathersage VAD Hospital.

Joined up in Canada in 1915 but rejected as under age, re-joined in 1917 No 2497831. b 1899 Boston, Lincs. His mother was Sarah Ellen Buttery b1860 in Hathersage, daughter of the village blacksmith, d1903. She married David Skerritt b Boston Lincs. 1891C living in Pitsmoor, Sheffield. Father David ended up in the hospital of Sheffield Workhouse and died in 1912. He and his brother Percy above, went into foster home or the workhouse and they were shipped to Canada in 1911 with a number of other orphans. Another brother, Harold, buried Hathersage 14/8/1891 only a few weeks old, (possibly died of the diphtheria epidemic in the village around this time). Cousin to James Luther and Percy Luther Buttery, Lancelot William Hancock, and Luther Priestley above.

2839 B Coy, 9 Bn Canadian Expeditionary Force. Wounded at Vimy Ridge and served in WW2 as a ‘Veterans Guard’. b1896 Spalding, Lincs. His mother was Sarah Ellen Buttery b1860 in Hathersage, daughter of the village blacksmith, died 1903. She married David Skerritt b Boston Lincs. 1891C living in Pitsmoor, Sheffield. Father David ended up in the hospital of Sheffield Workhouse and died in 1912. He and his brother Sydney, below, went into foster home or the workhouse and they were shipped to Canada in 1911 with a number of other orphans. Another brother, Harold, buried Hathersage 14/8/1891 only a few weeks old, (possibly died of the diphtheria epidemic in the village around this time) Cousin to James Luther and Percy Luther Buttery, Lancelot William Hancock, and Luther Priestley above. He had a son Clarence Percy, who served Pte Regina Rifle Regt in WW2 and was KIA , Normandy on 13/6/1944 age 21. He had two further sons who served in WW2, Robert with the 4th Armoured Division, and Douglas with the Royal Canadian Ordinance Corps

19181 Pte 1 Bn A I Regt  (Australian Imperial Regiment. A lot of early N Z troops were amalgamated with the Australian forces), served in France 30/7/1916-19/10/1918. Wounded (D C 13/4/18 ‘Formerly of Hathersage’). 1919 he was in King George‘s Hospital, Rotorua, NZ., and in 1920 he married Doris Crombie there. He died New Zealand in 1954, classed as a war pensioner.  b Hathersage 30/8/1893, son of William Peter Simpson, farmer and butcher. 1911C at Hare and Hounds, Sheffield Road, Hathersage. (DT 20/4/1912; ‘Geo Simpson, eldest son of Mr & Mrs W P Simpson of the Hare and Hounds Inn, embarked en route for Australia’). His father was living at 195 Broomhall Street, Sheffield at the time of his son’s enlistment in April 1916.

466028  Hussars. Lt 19 Dragoons, Canadian Army in 1914 at Edmonton Canada.  b1877 Sheffield. 1911C living at Holm Leigh, Station Road, Hathersage, a solicitor’s clerk. Emigrated 1913.

1328 8th Bn Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force.  b 1894 Curbar. 1901C at Crossland Road, father Abraham, family living at Bank Top, Hathersage, according to William’s Canadian enlistment papers. Brother of Arthur Siddall.