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L/Cpl 469 12/15 Bn Y & L.  POW from 20/7/1916. b 1894 Grindleford Bridge. 1911C a bank clerk living in Eyam. Son of Robert Outram b1858 Stoke, his mother was Emma Broomhead b1854 Hathersage.

47515 Pte Northumberland Fusiliers.  b 1891 Thorpe Farm, Outseats. 1911C living in Ecclesall.

He was a volunteer. (DC 19/1/1918. (age 33) a plumber. Granted 4 months exemption). (DC 25/5/1918 (age 34) Class A. One month exemption, and to be medically examined). (DC 12/10/1918 Grade 1, previous exemption certificate confirmed), so it is unlikely he was ever called up after then.

Christened Newton, birth registered as Higginson, and died as Higginson, but he is shown as ‘Newton’ on all the military records. On 5/3/1898, a labourer he signed on at Glossop for 6 years as a militiaman, 6155 2 Bn Derbyshire Regt.  It would seem he lied on enlistment as being 18 years 2 months, as he would only be 17 years 2 months. b 1881 Hathersage. 1898 enlistment showed he had resided at Whitfield, Glossop for last twelve months. 1901C he is living in Scotland. 1911C living at Redditch, Worcs, a motor mechanic. Probably enlisted again, 65080 Highland Light Infantry, and served with the Black & Tans (Ireland) circa 1920. Parents Isaac and Ruth (Higginson). 1911C living at Glossop. Wallace Newton’s mother Ruth was sister to Thomas; Charlie Higginson/Newton’s father. Wallace’s wife Jeannie was Scottish and the family went back to Scotland before emigrating to Canada in 1923. They had a son also called Wallace b 1899 in Lanarkshire, Scotland, a year after the father enlisted, who probably also served. (See Aaron Newton above)

(see Newton, Raymond Crossland above).

✟ ⚜ Щ 29896 Guardsman 3 Bn Grenadier Guards. Enlisted in 1917.  K.I.A. 23/8/1918 age 19. His Name appears as ‘Raymond’ on the Hathersage War Memorial and in the casualty lists, but Reginald in WHW2W. (DC 7/9/1918; ‘Mrs Grace Newton of ‘Moorland’, Crossland Road, Hathersage, was informed that her son Raymond Crossland Newton, Grenadier Guards was killed in action’). Grave: Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, France. Ref; 4-K-4. b 1900, son of Grace Newton (née Heaton, b Sheffield) of Crossland Road. His Grandmother was Sarah A Crossland. The Crosslands were one of the oldest families in the village, but have subsequently died out. The Newton’s were beset by tragedy; father Herbert Bennet Newton died a year after Raymond was born in 1900. In 1901C Raymond was living with his widowed mother at 347 Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield, and sister Irene, who died in 1905, age about 9. In 1911C Raymond age 12, living with his mother, a boarding house keeper, at 14 Thompson Road, Sheffield with 6 boarders and a servant.

née Heaton. b1867 Mother of Raymond Crossland Newton KIA.  Red Cross record; at Crossland Road, originally a homeworker, knitting & needlework, later general duties for Hathersage VAD hospital.

✟ ≠ L/Cpl 175284 Queens Own Yorkshire Dragoons. KIA 20/10/1918, buried Harlebeke New British Cemetery, West Flanders. b 1894 Sheffield. 1911C a clerk in Sheffield. His mother was Clara Boden b 1865 Hathersage.

8866 Pte Manchester Regt.  He had already been  a serving soldier, having spent five years in India with the Manchester Regt, (1911C; India), later Pte in the Cheshire Regiment. Sent to France 6/1/1915 to 23/10/1915 when he received a shrapnel wound in left thigh at the Battle of Loos, and never seemed to recover properly from it. From 21/11/1915 to 29/9/1916 he spent most of his time in Hospital. He was downgraded 30/1/1917 and sent to work for Vickers Barrow in Furness.  b 1883 Hathersage. 1911C in India. Brother of Aaron and half-brother to Wallace Harry Newton. Parents Isaac and Ruth (née Higginson)

(Known as Charlie Higginson, before their father died, then as Charlie Newton).† ≠ 5530 Y & L, then 60362 Pte M.G.C. D of W 21/5/1917. Grave; Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, Mory, Pas de Calais, France. b 1884 Hathersage, as Charles Higginson. Brother of Joseph Newton/Higginson and Percy Newton/Higginson, (and James Newton/Higginson, b1876 Hathersage, a police constable in Sheffield City Police, who did not serve in the forces), sons of the late Thomas Francis (b1852 Hathersage, registered as ‘Higginson’ but baptised as ‘Newton’), a Hackle Pin Grinder, and Martha Newton (née Barber, b 1854 Castleton). In 1891C the family is called Higginson living in Leeds. In 1898 father Thomas Francis Newton dies in Sheffield, mother Martha does not remarry. The whole family appear on 1901C & 1911C in Sheffield, as ‘Newton’.