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✟ ≠ 214623 Pte  2/6 Bn Notts & Derbys. D of W 19/4/18. Grave Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Boulogne Sur Mer, Pas de Calais, France.  Also remembered on Derwent & Woodlands War Memorial. b 1897 Derwent, son of David Priestley, b 1864 Hathersage. David had two other sons, George b 1894 Derwent and Ernest b 1898 Derwent, but no military records have been found of these. 1911C all living at Jubilee Cottages, Derwent.

ă RX 4/263377 Pte 49 Regt Sqdn A S C.  b 1891 Hathersage. 1911C working at White House Farm, Hathersage. On 1918 Absent voters his address; Callow Farm, Hathersage.

307223 Pte Army Service Corps. b 1882 Chapeltown. 1911C in Ranby Road, Sheffield, a clerk. Living at Grindleford at time of enlistment in 1915. Married to Annie Gilby Brougham, b 1878 Sheffield. Her father was William Brougham of 11 Crossland Road, Hathersage, who died in 1923 age 82 (Obituary DT 20/1/1923) and who was a part time Methodist Minister, living in Hathersage during the war. He also had three sons, John, William and Joe, but no military records found for them. Alfred Thompson died in 1950 also at 11 Crossland Road, Hathersage, as did his wife in 1966.

Д b 1889 Sheffield. 1911C living at Park Edge, Hathersage, she married the vicar of Bakewell, the Rev John Newbould, who died Dec 1918. Red Cross record; a nurse at Hathersage VAD hospital, transferred to Special Service Manchester.

W. 478492 Spr R E. (T) 2961 R E. b1898 Hathersage. 1911C living at Dronfield.

42379 Pte Notts & Derbys, 56554 Royal Welsh Fusiliers. (DC 22/9/1917, ‘Pte Albert Platts, Sherwood Foresters of Gatehouse, Outseats, Hathersage wounded in the thigh in France and is in hospital. Before enlistment he was employed at the offices of the Derwent Water Board at Bamford’). 30/1/1918; discharged unfit. There was a Cpl Platts of A coy 5 Volunteer (Hathersage) Battalion, who attended Arthur Dobney King’s funeral in Nov 1918, who was probably this same person. b 1876 Gatehouse Farm, Outseats, at 41 he was quite old to be front line. 1911C at Gatehouse Farm, Outseats a farm worker.

Gnr R.F.A. 644282 Pte Labour Corps. b 1892 Hathersage. 1911C in Leicester.

1669 6 Bn Cheshire Regt Res Bn. Enlisted 1/4/1914, discharged 14/5/1915. Enlisted again 5/10/1915, Rifleman 474423 12 London Regt. GSW to hand. b 1898 Stockport. His father was George Pickersgill, b 1874 Hathersage (Sunnybank Cottage) an electrician. 1911C in Stockport.

(DC 23/8/1919, ‘Hathersage football club will be without W Pepper as he lost a foot in the war’), Otherwise no military record found. b 1880 Marple Bridge, Longford (Glossop). 1911C living at Dalton’s Farm, Jaggers Lane, Hathersage.

Pte 53473 Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regt. b 1899 Fulwood, brother of James Henry above. Their father John Peat b 1849 Hathersage. 1911C at Ringinglow, a general labourer.