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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.

285160 Pte R A S C (MT).  b 1887 Newtown Row, Hathersage. 1911C living at Linthwaite, Yorks., son of William (b 1849 Brampton, Chesterfield) & Sarah Ann (b1850 Southwell, Notts.) who were in 1881C living ‘near the Thatched Tavern’, Hathersage Booths, and 1891C at Newtown Row. John William was the brother-in-law to William Bower above, whose wife Gladys Rowbottom, b 1884 Hathersage, and who died during WW1 on 24/6/1916, was his sister.

Pte 216710 Packers & Loaders Section RASC T4.  b 1884 at Darley Dale. 1911C at Hayfield a  Dock Labourer. His wife was Harriett Anne Slack b1886 Hathersage. The Slack family farm was “Greenwood“, Note Car Lane, Harper Lees, Hathersage.

✟ ≠ Lt 22 Bn Manchester Regiment. Joined up in July 1915, was wounded in Dec 1916 and returned to his unit in April 1917 and promoted full Lt in May. D of W 7/10/17. Grave; Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, France. b 1895 Sale, Cheshire. Only son of Philip Harvey and Emily Ross of Longley. Educated at Oak View Boarding School Hathersage and Manchester. Passed 2^nd Div Civil Service Exam, employed at the Admiralty, London. Parents had moved to Tunbridge Wells by 1917.

Gazetted 1915 2/Lt Kent Fortress Engineer.  Acting Captain Royal Monmouthshire Regt.  Saw service in Gallipoli, Palestine, Middle East and France. Awarded O.B.E. (His son of the same name won the D.S.O. for his part in the D Day Landings in WW2). b 1880, Wivelscombe Devon. 1911C living at Cannonfields, Hathersage.  Resident Engineer for the Derwent Dam.

ă 796145 Gnr 49 D &M Battery R A., R F A,  later Tank Corps. b 1894 Horsforth, Leeds. (Arthur Roose is in fact Arthur Holmes, the illegitimate son of Phyllis Holmes (b Hathersage), who later marries Thomas Roose. 1911C the family are living at Padley, Hathersage.  Various records alternate between ‘Roose’ & ‘Holmes’. His 1918 absent voters address is ‘Grindleford’.

Pte 184592 Machine  Gun Corps  enlisted 2/3/1916 called up 21/9/1918. b 1897 Greenhill. 1911C at Coal Aston. His father was Joseph Ronksley, b1854 Hathersage, he became a farmer at Coal Aston.

✟ ≠ 10878 Pte 14 Bn Northumberland Fusiliers. K I A 26/9/1915. Grave, Vermelles British Cemetery, France. b 1890 ‘Oak View’, Bakewell Road, Hathersage (now Station Road). 1911C, living at Hillsborough, Sheffield. War graves record shows he was a native of Hathersage and the son of John Thomas and Martha Ronksley of 27 Dyker Hall Road, Hillsborough.

2242 Pte West Yorks Regt. Lt Royal Engineers. b 1893 at Sheffield. 1901C at Oak View Boarding School, Hathersage. 1911C living at Tadcaster.