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ă T/306070 Pte 15 Coy M.T., A.S.C.  1918 absent voters list shows military information as above and his address simply; ‘Hathersage’. No other information or other link with Hathersage.

(DC 10/3/1917; 3 months exemption granted but he had to give help to other farmers 3 days a week’). Played cricket for Hathersage.

ă Д  (DC 28/1/1922 listed among Methodist Church Members who had served).  38172 Pte 55 Field Amb R.A.M.C.  b 1894 Highlow. 1911C he and brother Samuel both working at Broadhay Farm, Highlow.

ă 17473 Pte. 8 Y & L. (SDT 15/7/1916; In hospital suffering from wounds in the body). (Later the same year, DC 14/10/1916; Became a POW). b 1892 Highlow. 1911C he and his brother Tom Howe, were both working at Broadhay Farm, Highlow.

✟ Щ  203005 Pte 2 /4 Bn Leicestershire Regt.  K.I.A. 17/4/1918, age 20 (WHW2W gives age 29 incorrectly.) (DT 29/6/1918 p4 Obituary & photo). Memorial; Ploegsteert, Belgium.  b 1889 son of William & Louisa Howe of ‘Chatsworth’ The Dale, Hathersage.  Lived variously at Gate House, Broadhay & Higger Lodge and a relative, Mr G Elliott, lived at Signings Farm, Windmill, Tideswell. His widow later lived at Toothill Farm, Hathersage.

Pte 22068 D Coy 3rd Bn Y & L.  GSW to thigh and hand.  Declared a deserter 5/9/1918.  b Sheffield. 1911C an unemployed labourer in Sheffield. His father, John Robert Howe b1851 Hazelford, was a drayman.

(Derby Daily Telegraph 24/9/1921; ‘Hathersage doctor awarded Red Cross War Medal’ for his work at Hathersage Red Cross Hospital’).  b 1878 Hendon Middlesex. 1911C living at Bradwell. He took over Hathersage Medical Practice following death of Dr Lander in 1916.

Pte 49851 Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt ) b 1898 Edgbaston, Warwicks. 1911C at school. His mother was Isabel Broomhead, b 1874 Hathersage (at Eastwood). He later became Consul for Nicaragua.

✟ ≠ 25848 Sgt 16th Bn Sherwood Foresters. (Man Evening News 11/5/1915; Derbyshire Police Constables join up, including Hooker of Hathersage). KIA 13/11/1916.  (Derby Daily Telegraph 1/12/1916; Sgt Hooker who served at different times with Derbyshire Police force in Brimington, Barrow Hill, Wirksworth, Hathersage and Bamford, and also as a private constable at Haddon Hall, has been killed in action. He was rescuing a wounded comrade when he was shot by a sniper). (DT 2/12/1916 p5 also served at Bakewell and was at Hathersage, from which station he joined the colours in the Chatsworth Rifles in connection with the Sherwood Foresters. Remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.  b1877 Market Rasen, Lincs. 1911C at Bamford, a police constable, although he doesn’t appear on their memorial.

ă 2/Lt R.G.A. b 1890 in Sheffield, 1911C living in Sheffield, an Insurance clerk. 1919 absent voters address given as; Stanage Cottage, Outseats, since demolished. Wife was Phoebe Kate Hall.