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ă 50212 Pte 5 Yorks L.I.  (HPN 9/12/1916; ‘Son of Mr John Lowe, The Dale, has been promoted to Sergeant and musketry instructor’).  b 1894 Hathersage. 1911C living at The Dale, Hathersage, a general labourer. (HPN 30/12/1916; ‘visited his home in Hathersage last week’). He is 2nd from right on WHW2W p 54 photo. Father of Hazel Lowe.

2818 Pte 18 Hussars Queen Mary’s Own.  Went to France in 1914, and taken prisoner on 20 Oct 1914 at Lille, not wounded, according to his German POW record dated 27 Aug 1917. He was at Soltau and Hamelin camps, and his next-of-kin shown as at 21 Riverside, Driffield. (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 14/11/1914; report of his capture).  Born 23/9/1886 Hathersage ‘Old Dale’. 1911C (listed as Fred Louis), already serving in the Military at Delhi Barracks. South Tidworth, Hants. While stationed at Scarborough pre-war, he met his future wife, Annie Spellings. He died at Driffield, Yorks in 1932 aged only 45,

The following is from the Great War Forum website;

‘September 17th 1914. Private F. Lowe 18th Hussars, British Expeditionary Force writes as follows to his friend, at The Dale, Hathersage: – “Just a few lines to say I am all right at present.  I have often wished to see a battle, but it is Hell on earth when the shrapnel shells burst above us, and we see men and horses dropping in heaps.  There is one good thing about the Germans they are very poor shots, or we could not have lasted so long, but we are getting topside of them and I don’t think the war will last very long.  I only hope to get back safe and sound.  We get very little rest: last night we got about an hour, and we are in luck if we get over four hours any time.  My boss sent me a tin of Bruno tobacco I did enjoy it.  We cannot buy anything here, the Germans have cleared every village and town.  The devils go into houses and ransack the place and take the food.  The Belgians and French people are the best I have ever met.  They give us tobacco, food, wine chocolates and fruit.  They think the world of English soldiers’
‘Private F. Lowe was in the charge of the Light Brigade when it fell into a trap attempting to capture some guns near Compiegne and the 9 Lancers were badly cut up with the 18 Hussars and Dragoons.  Private Lowe has still the same horse he took out with him from England, and he is very much attached to it. The Hathersage people might follow the “boss’s” example and send our Hathersage men at the front some tobacco.  Mr Roden will be pleased to receive parcels of tobacco and cigarettes and send them out to our Hathersage lads in the front.’

(Mr Roden was the Hathersage School Headmaster at the time.)

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.