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 Surprise Villas, Sheffield Road. A nurse at Hathersage VAD Hospital.

✟ ≠ Q.M.S Royal North Devon Hussars in 1914 and the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1915. Commissioned; 2/Lt 4th Bn (Territorials) Kings Own (Royal Lancaster) Regt. Before the war he had served eight years in the Volunteers. He went to France 2/7/1916, K I A 31/7/1916. Grave; Flatiron Copse Cemetery Mametz, Somme, France. 

 

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Gnr 785647 RFA. b1891 Sheffield. By 1911C he was a cabinet maker in Sheffield. His father was James Lilleman, b 1864 Hathersage and his mother was Elizabeth Ann Crossland, b1863 Hathersage.

Temp Capt R.G.A., awarded MC. b 1894 Rawalpindi, India. 1901 Belle View, Jaggers Lane, Outseats. His father John H was a retired acting Major, Royal Garrison Artillery, who was a director at Vickers Ltd., Sheffield and had a road named after him in the Wisewood district of Sheffield.

ß Щ b 1893 Sheffield. 1911C living at Station Road, Hathersage and working ‘tempering at tin works’.  He could have been in a reserved occupation and therefore could be the L/Cpl Lee of A coy 5 Volunteer (Hathersage) Battalion who attended Arthur Dobney King’s funeral in Nov 1918. His mother Annie b Sheffield age 37 was a widow in 1911C. Otherwise no other service records yet found.

34829 Pte R.A.M.C. b 1893 Hathersage.  1911C living at Sheffield.

née Johnston.  b 1886 Brazil, a British subject. 1911C in Sheffield.  Husband, William Ernest Laycock (Lt R E) who founded the Laycock Engineering Company, Sheffield.  Red Cross record; a nurse at Hathersage VAD Hospital living in Dronfield. 

ß Щ Allan/ Allen Langdon is Allan Leonard Langdon. We found an A Langdon 2nd Lt Lancs Fusiliers but also had been given a service number, which suggests he was an ‘other rank’ possibly promoted to officer at the end of the war because of the shortage of officers?  b 1894 Longnor, Staffs. 1911C Longnor a postman. (There is a reference to Allen Langdon, in Sheffield Independent 18/7/1923; A Hathersage Insurance Agent involved in a motor accident). He had a younger brother Eric Bernard who served, originally with the Kings Royal Rifles, he later transferred into The Lancashire Fusiliers was wounded and captured at Passchendaele. It is not thought he had any other ‘Hathersage Connections’ than his brother.

b 1868 Donnington, Herts. 1911C The Hollies Hathersage. Red Cross record; Chief medical officer at Hathersage VAD Hospital. Died Oct 1916.

(DC 10/3/1917, ‘Manager of the Hathersage Co-op (28). 4 Months exemption granted provided he joined the Volunteers’). (DC 19/1/1918 Class C3, 6 months exemption granted). (DC 13/7/1918 Grade 3, granted a further 4 months), which would take him to after the end of hostilities. b 1888 Burton on Trent, 1911C living at Sheffield.