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ß Щ 33127 Driver, R F A, discharged April 1915 due to illness. b 1893 Hathersage. Both parents died the same year he was born and only a year after they were married in Hathersage in 1892. Mother was Louisa Mosley (b 1870 Grindleford Bridge), 1891C her family was living at Higgar Lodge, Hathersage.  She died 1893 (in childbirth?). Father, Charles Hubert Longden (b 1868 Hope 1891C living at Derwent, a farmer, d1893). 1901C  George Mosley was at Station Road, Hathersage, spelt ‘Longdin’ with grandmother Harriett Mosley, widow, (b Worksop). 1911C  living at Bradford with his Aunty Hannah Harrison, (b Eyam) and her family all b Hathersage, working as a feeder at print works.

b 1879 Sheffield. 1911C Sheffield. Red Cross record; a nurse at Hathersage VAD Hospital, she also worked Queen Mary’s Convalescent Hospital, Roehampton and lived at Pitsmoor, Sheffield.

205044 Pte K.O.Y.L.. 137958 M.G.C. b 1890 Hathersage, brother of Arthur & John Richard. 1911C; living in Sheffield with John Richard (Jack), sons of John Littlewood & Louisa (Brewster), Station Road, Hathersage,

née Kirk. b 1866 Bamford. 1911C at Oddfellows Row, Hathersage. Red Cross record; a homeworker, knitting & needlework at Hathersage VAD Hospital.

ß ă Щ Д  (DT 15/1/1915 6^th Liverpool Bantam Regt).  (DT 28/1/1922 listed among Methodist Church Members who had served). 14119 L/Cpl 17 Lancs Fusiliers. b 1894 Bamford, son of Asa (b Hathersage) & Mary Ellen (b Bamford). 1911C living at Bamford. 1918 absent voters address given as; Oddfellows Terrace, Hathersage. (DC 6/9/1919 married Florence Nelson of the Grouse Inn, Dronfield).

Д  ( DC 7/9/1907 a Pte J R Littlewood was listed as taking part in a Derbyshire Volunteer’s shooting competition at Edale, together with a Pte J Shirt, and Sgt A Shaw). (Shown in list of Servicemen in DT 2/1/1915 as in 25636 Pte 16^th/2^nd Sherwood Foresters.) No other military records found except; (DC 28/1/1922 shown on the Wesleyan Methodist Church memorial to members who served as J W Littlewood). b 1887 Hathersage, son of John & Louisa (Brewster). 1901C at Oddfellows Row, Hathersage. 1911C; He is down as Jack and living with his brother Maurice in Sheffield. Arthur was also his brother.

(ß Щ spelt ‘Ellis’) ă  (DT 15/1/1915 6^th Notts & Derbys). Pte 20916 Sherwood Foresters. 239551 Labour Corps. (SDT 15/7/1916; wounded in the recent advance).  b 1894 Hathersage, son of George and Ann Littlewood, both b Hathersage, brother of Elijah b1899 Hathersage. 1911C address; Main Road, Hathersage. 1918 absent voters listed him as doing substitution farm work, and his address still as Main Road.

Pte 5439 Y & L. It would seem he suffered from some disability in 1916. He tried to re-enlist in 1919 but was discharged on medical grounds. (Details taken from his record, 1919).  b 1898 Sheffield. 1911C in Sheffield a grocer’s boy. His father was William Littlewood b1863 Hathersage, a steel driller.

Pte M/351965  RASC. b1881 Sheffield. 1911C a pawnbroker’s manager in Sheffield. His father Arthur Emmanuel Littlewood, b1847 Hathersage, was a needle wire drawer.

✟ Щ   18995 Pte D Coy 1 Bn East Lancs Regt. Surprising given his age that he was ‘front line’. He arrived in France 7/7/1915 died age 39 on 22/8/1915 of wounds received on 20/8/1915. Grave; Beauval Communal Cemetery, France. He also appears on another memorial somewhere according to the inscription on Hathersage War Memorial, possibly in Ashton-u-Lyne. (DC 11/9/1915; News was received on Friday morning by Mr and Mrs John Littlewood, Oddfellows Row, Hathersage that their son, Private Arthur Littlewood who was forty years of age, joined the East Lancashire Regiment some five months ago, and had been in the firing line about six weeks. It was while relieving trenches that he was picked off by a sniper. He resides at Ashton-under-Lyne, and leaves a widow and family of six children. Private Littlewood is the second Hathersage native to fall in the war’). He was one of 12, b c1876 and baptised 16/4/1876 at Hathersage, lived at Bean Row and 7 Oddfellows Row. Brother of Jack and Maurice, sons of John Littlewood & Louisa (Brewster), Station Road, Hathersage, husband of Ann of Ashton-u-Lyne. (according to Rev Hulbert’s record card his N of K was Mrs Jenkinson, Jaggers Lane, Hathersage and his niece was Mrs A White, Cannon Fields, Hathersage).