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Enlisted 2/6/1916, 76211 Pte 10 Bn Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regt, & 2/4 West Riding and 39917 Gloucestershire Regt. Sent to France 3/10/1917, seriously wounded 25/11/1917, probably hit by shrapnel in the head and cheek, and spent most of the rest of the war in hospital. 1911C and Army record gave b 1888 Hathersage, 1901C & 1891C gave b Hope Woodlands! Brother of Clarence Ralph Newton and half-brother to Wallace Harry Newton (see below).

Kicked out of the Royal Navy after only 3 months in 1909 (age 16). Joins the Army 22/9/1913 Pte 10295 2nd Bn Alexandra Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Regt (Green Howards). In court in Guernsey 23/4/1914 for smashing up public property, 1 month imprisonment. Army suspect it was deliberate to get a discharge so naturally didn’t give him one! String of Military and Civil offences on his service report. Sent to France Nov 1914 ‘till Apr 1918. Severe GSW left leg. In Wharncliffe Military Hospital, Sheffield ‘till July 1920. b 1893 Filey. 1911C in Scunthorpe. Son of John William Nelson, brother of Gilbert Victor Nelson and Vincent Ethelbert Nelson.

In chronological order; Pte 7854 KOYLI, 202213 2/5 Bedford Regt, 552148 2/5 Essex Regt, 525 HS Employment Co, Labour Corp (attached to Essex Regt so keeps same number), 527 HS Employment Corp, injured in riding accident, June 1917. (Seemed to be a soldier nobody wanted?) Army records state he was a groom living in Doncaster. b1875 Guiseley 1911C a coachman, Penkridge, Staffs. Son of John William Nelson, brother of Gilbert Victor Nelson and William Edward Nelson.

Act/Cpl 98491, 183 /223 Field Coy RE (both were Tunnelling Companies). b 1887 Bolton Abbey. 1911C Leeds Engineman.

Son of John William Nelson. b 1846 Guiseley Yorks, who married Mary Waite, who in 1881C was at Guiseley, a wool cloth maker, 1891C father at Edale, a missionary to Navvies, probably the railway workers, around 1891, he was a short time in Hathersage. 1901C at Northfield Worcs, a missionary, 1911C a missionary at Scunthorpe. Their children were; Arthur Norman Nelson b 1872 Guiseley 1911C a coachman, Low Bentham, Lancaster. Harold Waite Nelson b 1874 Guiseley 1911C a carpenter, Selby. Vincent Ethelbert Nelson. b1875 Guiseley. Evelyn Nelson (male) b Guiseley 1877 1901C an engine driver London, marries in London 1904 (no record found after). Anna Nelson b 1879 Guiseley, marries John Joseph Henry. 1901C at Chorlton, emigrates to Australia 1912. Agnes Nelson, b1882 Guiseley, 1911C a dressmaker living with her parents in Scunthorpe. John Albert Nelson, b Guiseley 1883, (name alternates between John Albert and Albert John), no records after 1901C. Helena Nelson, b 1885 Guiseley, 1911C a midwife in Wandsworth, London. The above Gilbert Victor Nelson. Lucy Marie Nelson, b 1889 Halifax, dies 23/12/1891 and is buried Hathersage, age 3. Millicent Amy Nelson, b Nov 1891 Hathersage, 1911C an Asylum Nurse in Suffolk. William Edward Nelson, b 1893 Filey. 1911C in Scunthorpe.

ß ⚜ Щ Gnr R.F.A. (DC 7/9/1918; ’Home on leave’). (DT 22/2/1919 p8; ‘was wounded and was only demobbed a day or two ago’). On Scouts Memorial Board as A Fletcher R.F.A., (he may have been confused with his brother?)  b 1893 at Froggatt, eldest son of William and Sarah Edith Fletcher. 1911C, The Dale, Hathersage, brother of Arthur Ward Fletcher, Fred Fletcher and Harold Dalton Fletcher.

✟ ß ⚜ ă Щ Harold Dalton Fletcher’s military record is badly damaged, (Mostly too faint to make out properly). He enlisted at the Sheffield depot of Y & L 20/11/1915, a platelayer, single, age 20 yrs 1 month, (i.e., b Oct 1895), before being assigned to The Sherwood Foresters (N & D) but approval not given until 11/2/1916; 35058 6 Sherwood Foresters. 20/9/1916, transferred from 1/6 N & D Regt into 40908 Manchester Regt. He was badly wounded 11/10/1916. (DC 21/10/1916 & DC 28/10/1916; ‘Wounded in action’).  (DC 7/4/1917 ‘Home on ten days leave after being shot through the leg some time ago. Until recently he was in Leeds Northern Clearing Hospital’). This leave was 28/3/1917 – 6/4/1917 to Brook Cottages, The Dale, Hathersage. 15/9/1917 transferred to 171 Labour Corps, and later transferred to 398607 Labour Corps Field Service. His army record refers to his death from Influenza 7/2/1919, and buried at Belgrade Cemetery, Namur, Belgium. (DT 22/2/1919 p8 shows a picture and reports; ’death in hospital in France 16th Manchester Regt age 23, has been in the Army 3 years and France 2 years. He was in the Church Choir, a cricketer and footballer’). His mother signed the receipt for his medals. A Parcel of his personal effects was sent on 1/7/1920 from the Labour Corps and a Scroll of Honour sent to his father (undated). Edna age 20 listed as full blood sister on his Army records. (She would be Edna Muriel b1900 Hathersage). His name appears as ‘Harold’ on the Hathersage War Memorial, and as ‘H Fletcher’ on the Scouts Memorial Board.

b 1895 Grindleford Bridge, third son of William and Sarah Edith Fletcher, brother of Fred Fletcher, of The Crofts, (although the present ‘Crofts’ were not built then), and of Arthur Ward Fletcher & William Fletcher.  He is shown as living at 8 Council Houses, The Dale in 1959.

Incorrectly listed as Harold Dalton Fletcher in previous publications. Joseph Harold Fletcher was 40078 Pte 10 Bn Y & L Regt. who died 13/10/1917 aged 33, he enlisted in Leeds and his father was Joseph.  He is nothing to do with Harold Dalton below, and has no Hathersage connections that can be determined.

✟ ≠ 11760. 7 Bn East Yorkshire Regt. K.I.A. 27/9/1915. Buried in Bedford House Cemetery West, Vlaanderen, Belgium. b 1891 Hathersage, (but 1891C & 1901C both show him b  Gorton, Manchester) to parents Marshall and Helen (Ellen) Fletcher (b 1860 Hathersage).  1901C living at Main Road, Hathersage with his brother Marshall b 1890 Gorton, and sister Minnie H b 1884 in USA.  1911C in Sheffield. 1915 parents living at 162 Woodbourn Road, Attercliffe.

ß Щ R 17842 Pte Lincolnshire Regt, transferred to 42458 Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regt. Wounded (DC 21 July 1917). (DT 22/2/1919 p8 ‘Dvr Arthur RFA, was gassed, paralyzed down one side and lost an eye’). Brothers; William, Fred & Harold Dalton Fletcher.

b 1894 Calver, third son of William and Sarah Edith Fletcher. 1911C living at The Dale, Hathersage.

2/Lt Monmouthshire Regt. Lt RTE/RTO. (Railway Transport Establishment/Railway Transport Officer (later Railway Traffic Officer).  b1889 Wrexham, 1901C at Oak View Boarding School, Hathersage.