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SWIFT, Westby

314012 Gnr R.G.A. South Midlands Battery, from 1914 to 1920. Went to France on 31/3/1915.

b Jan 1894 Highlow, son of Alfred, (b 1867 Grindleford/ Eyam Woodlands) a bootmaker, and Ann Eliza Bagshawe, (b 1870 Hathersage). Brother of Thomas Alfred. 1911C living at Northfield, Worcs. He married Ada Elizabeth Gibbs in 1919 and died in 1963 at Birmingham. Brother of Thomas Albert.

SWIFT, Thomas Alfred

Enlisted in Territorial Force 3/9/1914, 1554 Trumpeter, Imperial 2 Service Bn R F A. It would seem he lied about his age being 20 when enlisting! b 1895 Highlow, son of Alfred, (b 1867 Grindleford/ Eyam Woodlands) a bootmaker and Ann Eliza Bagshawe, (b 1870 Hathersage). Brother of Westby. 1901C, living at Northfield, Worcs. He married Edith May Potter in 1913 and died Mar 1958 age 62.

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 MM

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’).(High Peak Chronicle 20/12/1918, 2/Lt awarded M.M. for gallant conduct in the field). 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, and 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.