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KP/769 Leading Seaman R N V R. Also with Y & L. It was not unusual for Navy personnel to be drafted into Army front line activities.  b 1888 Hathersage, by 1891C living in Norton,  Sheffield and by 1901C in South Leverton, Notts, and he is listed as a tailor’s assistant on the 1911C living in Ulverston Road, Sheffield. His sister Nellie was born 1887 in Long Eaton, Notts, so the family moved about frequently and must have only been in Hathersage only a short time. The father Charles William was a coachman/groom and by 1901 seemed to be estranged from his wife Sarah and the family, who were living with their mother.

✟ ≠ Sapper 158030 173 Tunnel Coy Royal Eng. Presumed killed 29/3/1918. Remembered at Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France and on the Darfield Memorial Tablet, All Saints Church, Darfield. There seemed to have been a number of the soldiers from the same company ‘presumed killed’ that day. This suggested it might have been a tunnel collapse, but according to the records 173 Coy and several other tunnelling companies were converted to emergency Infantry, 25/3/1918 in order to help stem the first German Offensive of 1918.  b 1896 Darfield. 1911C at Darfield, an office boy. His mother was Clara Appleyard, b Hathersage 1875, she also lost a brother; James Appleyard in the conflict. Her nephew,  Wilson Eyre Appleyard also served.

(For details see; NEWTON, Wallace Harry, below).

(For details see; NEWTON, Charles, below).

ă 211052 Pte 412 Labour Corps., b 1885 Hathersage, lived at The Dale, a bricklayers labourer. He was one of 12 children but only 5 had survived by 1911.

✟ ≠ Pte 15/1885 Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regt. KIA 1/10/1916. Remembered on Thiepval Memorial. Do not know of any UK memorial.  b 1887 Leeds. 1911C at Leeds, a carter. His father, William Higginbottom b 1862 Hathersage. He had two other brothers of military age but no details of them have been found.

ă Gnr R G A, wounded. (DC 26/6/1917 listed as wounded although this report may refer to the wrong brother?) (DC 11/9/1917 ‘Ill in Hospital’).  b 1896 Hathersage, lived at The Dale, Hathersage. Brother of John.

ă 99003 Gnr 67 Brigade R F A,  wounded and also caught malaria.  b 1883 Hathersage. Lived variously at The Dale, Nether Hall Lodge and Millers Bank, Hathersage, a gardener. Brother of Joseph. 1919 absent voters address, School Lane, Hathersage.

58602 Pte Leicestershire Regt.  Prior to enlisting he worked in one of the munitions factories in Sheffield, which was a reserved occupation. His own diary gives a detailed account of his moves. He joins the army 11/5/1918 and on 16 May arrives at North Somercotes Army training camp in Lincolnshire and is attached to the 4 Bn Leicestershire Regt. C Company. On 11/10/1918 ‘Arrived Calais’ and on 14th ‘Left camp for the line’. On 19 Oct William arrives at Bohain and on 20 leaves for the front line. ‘Left Bohain, went into action 1.30. Slightly wounded in neck and back’- The Battle of the Selle – William injured on 23/10/1918, the date of the fiercest fighting and, apparently the only battle he was in.  It is understand the Division was billeted around Bohain at the Armistice on 11/11/1918 and it was selected to march into Germany as part of the occupation force. They began to move 14-18 November to Solre-le-Chateau to assemble. The Division crossed the German border on 13 December and reached its destination at Bruehl on 23 December. However William was in Dieppe all this time, convalescing. He was in hospitals from Oct 1918 to Jan 1919 when he was at last sent on to Germany.

b 1890 The Dale, Hathersage, son of John D Hickinson & Martha (nee Wilson, daughter of James Wilson b London 1826). 1911C living at The Dale, a quarry stone cutter. Brother of Jack Cotterill Hickinson and nephew of Hugo Charles and George Alfred Hickinson.  He married Clare Emily McCain 12/4/1913. On 25/6/1918 there was a request to forward his marriage certificate and birth certificates of their children for Infantry Records, Leics Regt.  It appears that Clare may have been able to claim a grant when William was enlisted. His ‘slightly wounded’ amounted to shrapnel wounds in his neck –– they didn’t operate, possibly too dangerous to do so. According to his son it caused him a problem throughout his life afterwards – especially when shaving!  At home William was secretary to the Hathersage Band, and a member of the Fire Service.

In WW2, he served again by working in munitions, this time at Bamford, in buildings next to the (now demolished) Marquis of Granby Hotel, taken over by Metro Vickers. Most of this information has come from his granddaughter who has his diary. She also has some letters written home during the war, and his X rays taken in hospital, the postcards he sent home to his wife from Germany in 1919, together with a copy of the Hathersage Band rules which he wrote up, and various photos of him in the band. In his younger days he was easily identifiable as a very dapper young man in a cap and with a bow tie.

Pte 70032 Tank Corps. b 1888 Stannington.1901C at Stannington.1911C a bricklayer at Sheffield. Father Joseph, b Hathersage 1864, brother of Alfred Hickinson above.