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b 1864 Hathersage  father John/ 1871C Living at ‘Throstles Nest’, The Booths, Hathersage. 1881C  living with Uncle in  Chinley. Emigrated to Canada 1885. Enlisted Canadian Forces, 790992 131st Overseas Bn. Lied on application, said; BORN 1874. Died 1924 in New Westminister, B.C. Canada.

ß Щ He lied on his application form to the TA as 34 years old in 1909 (he was 37 and the age limit for the TA was 38, and they had to sign on for 4 years).  According to Herbert’s Pension Record he originally served 1102 Pte 6 Bn Notts & Derbys. He re-joined 331291 1/6 Notts & Derbys, (DC 27/7/1915 Wounded). Herbert was wounde by shrapnel in his abdomen in France 19/7/1915. He was shipped home 2/8/1915. (HPN 30/12/1916; ‘Pte Herbert Schofield, Sherwood Foresters, visited his home in Hathersage last week’). He spent the duration of the war in the UK until his discharge 10/10/1917 as unfit for further duties.  b 1872 Hathersage. 1911C; living at The Dale, Hathersage, son of Charlotte Schofield, (née Wiggett), widow, of The Dale, Hathersage. His father was Robert Schofield who died in 1904. Despite his wounds, Herbert lived to be 80, dying in 1953.

ă He had already served with Y & L, before 17148 Guardsman, attached to 1 Bn 2 Coy Coldstream Guards. He served on garrison duty at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London and the Houses of Parliament, before going to France where he took part in several big engagements. When the Armistice was signed he was on leave, but was recalled to serve with the Army of Occupation in Germany until 1919. He was standard bearer for Hathersage Royal British Legion and was one of ten members selected to represent Derbyshire in Czechoslovakia in October 1938. In his younger days he played full back for Hathersage F C and sustained a broken leg in round two against Bishop Auckland in the 1914 Amateur Cup. At one time he spent 3 months in an army prison for striking a superior officer. A letter from Pte H Schofield was printed in High Peak News 9/12/1916 and tells of conditions at the front; (The H Schofield who wrote the letter from the front would have to be Harry as Herbert was wounded in France 19/7/1915, shipped home 2/8/1915, where he spent the duration of the war till his discharge 10/10/1917).

“I do not know what kind of weather you are having, but it is terrible out here. We are up to our knees in mud all day long, and sometimes it is up to our waist, and if we are not careful where we are going – it is nothing to hear of someone going out of sight altogether. There are very few casualties considering the conditions we are under. There is not a stick or stone left standing. The ground where we are billeted at present is where the big push started. Some of our chaps have just revealed a German dressing station, underground, of course, with two German nurses and two doctors in it, all gassed. I have been looking at a mine-crater to-day, and you could get half of Hathersage into it. It is terrible to see the destruction of things. People in England cannot realise what it is like. I see by the paper there are disputes about money matters for work done. Well there are thousands of men who would willingly work for their bare keep if they had the chance and someone would come out and fill their place. We do not get much chance of fighting, and we are only too pleased to get on some fresh ground so that we can get about better. It takes four of five pair of horses to pull a small cart along through the mud, and then there are shells of all descriptions whissing about you, and your mates falling; it is not pleasant, but the most surprising thing is to see the boys coming out of the trenches, when they have had a day’s rest and a change of clothes; they are ready for anything again. Give my best respects to all the people of Hathersage, and tell them I say we are winning. It is slow but sure, – From an old scholar and affectionate friend.”

b 1883 Hathersage. 1904 married Sarah Wilson (b1883 Sheffield) and who died 1939. 1911C, living at The Dale, Hathersage, a railway platelayer. In the 1919 voters register he is still at The Dale. 1945 he marries Gladys Andrew, widow of Oscar Andrew. He dies 3/11/1965, and is buried in Hathersage Churchyard.

Probate given to Alice Florence Andrew, his step daughter. He is 1^st on right on the WHW2W p 54 photo.  Father of Major Harry ‘Dobbin’ Schofield, who served in WW2, and who became headmaster of Hathersage C of E School.

ă 39113 Pte South Staffs Regiment. 1918 Absent voters address; The Dale and still serving with North Staffs.  b 1885 Hathersage. 1911C at Broom Cottage, The Dale, Hathersage, a labourer. Brother of Albert above.

ß  ă  Щ  63358 Gnr 26 D A C., R F A. (DC 7/8/1918 – L/Cpl Albert Schofield had been home on leave). b 1894 Hathersage.  1911C living at Broom Cottage, The Dale, Hathersage, a labourer. Brother of George Robert below.

Д  (DC 28/1/1922 listed among Methodist Church Members who had served).  554941 Rifleman 16 London Rifles.  b 1898 Farnworth, Lancs.  (DT 19/10/1918 p5 reported he had been wounded. ‘He is in the Queen’s Westminster Rifles’). 1911C at Bath (school). His father was Rev H Stanley Sandford, the Hathersage Wesleyan Minister from 1913.

158020 RN Ships Carpenter. b 1891 Glossop. 1911C in Glossop a joiner. His mother was Mary Alice Hallam, b Hathersage

Lt., R.E.  b 1897 Plympton, Devon. 1911C, living at Buxton. His father Edward was an engineer for the Derwent Valley Water Board, living in 1912 at Hillside, (presumably Back Lane) Hathersage.

ă 100479 Cpl 200 S.B., R G A. Commissioned 23/6/1917, 2/Lt. 508 (S) Bty. R G A. Went to France 31/10/1916. b 1883 Howden, Nr Hull, died 30/1/1971 at Jaggers, Jaggers Lane, Hathersage. 1911C living at Hull, an architect’s assistant. Married Marion Isabel Hill, (b1887, d 17/12/1963), in 1911 at Sculcoates, Yorks East Riding. His 1918 absent voters address was Roslyn Crescent, Hathersage. They later lived at Lady Hayes, Cannon Fields, Hathersage. Their daughter Freda Isabel was killed in a climbing accident at Dinas Cromlech, Snowdonia on 30/10/1949 and her parents endowed a stained-glass window in her memory in Hathersage Parish Church.  On her death mother Marion Isabel Rylatt provided for a charitable trust fund, which still exists, for the benefit poor and deserving widows in Hathersage and Outseats.

✟ ≠ A sailor who enlisted in 1914 in Melbourne, 1402 Pte 14th Bn Australian Imperial Force. D of W on the Hospital ship ‘Devanha’ on 10/8/1915 age 19, having been shot by a sniper following the battle on Lone Pine, Gallipoli, and was buried at sea off Mudras Harbour.  b 1896 Rixton Lancs.  His mother was Mary Ann Williamson Fox b 1865 Callow Farm, Highlow. Her great grandfather was George Fox after whom Fox House was reputed to be named. (DC 25/3/1893; ‘The family farmed Callow for generations’).  She married twice. 1881 to Thomas Shorrocks, and 1895 to Charles Rowles. 1901C the family are living in Rixton Lancs, his mother died 1909, Manchester. 1911C Giles is listed as ‘Bowles’ living with his Aunt at Cardiff.