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ă Enlisted 25/2/1916,  335452 Pte 1/9 (Highlanders) Bn Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. He joined the battalion at the front in France, probably late 1916 or early 1917. Between 29/2/1916 to 4/3/1916 the 9th Royal Scots joined the 51st (Highland) Division.  The Division was moved to the Somme on 12 July and took part in a three division attack on High Wood on the night of 22/23 July 1916. The attack was repulsed. The Division took part in the Battle of Ancre on 13/11/1916 where the successful assault on Beaumont Hamel gained it a huge reputation. Through 1917 the Division fought at Arras, the Third Ypres/Passchendale and the Battle of Cambrai. In the Battle of Arras the role of the Division was to capture the southern shoulder of Vimy Ridge, facing a heavy enemy barrage and in places four lines of trenches. It was involved in the First Battle of the Scarpe, the Second Battle of the Scarpe, the Battle of Pilckem, and the Battle of Langemark, where probably John was injured. He was badly wounded in both legs. (DT 13/10/1917 with a photo of him, reports he is in hospital in Brighton and gives details of injury to one leg by an explosive bullet, and to the other by a bullet passing through it) He must have spent several months in hospital in France before being transferred to Kitchener’s Hospital Brighton. (DT 29/9/1917 ‘is being transferred to base’).

After Kitchener’s Hospital he was sent up to Longshaw Auxiliary Red Cross Hospital, near his home for recuperation, where he was photographed with William Henry (see below) and his wife prior to William’s enlistment in May 1918. He is pictured on a bed in the grounds of Longshaw Lodge. Longshaw’s historian told grand-niece Kate, that he had possibly been gassed and was outside as much as possible. John was officially discharged on 7/6/1918 according to his Medal Card. (DC 25/5/1918; ‘Discharged from further service due to wounds’.  b 1898 Hathersage. 1911C living at The Dale, son of John D Hickinson & Martha, (nee Wilson, daughter of James Wilson b London 1826), and brother of William Henry Hickinson and nephew of Hugo Charles and George Alfred Hickinson. His address on the 1918 absent voters list is Downing Row, Hathersage. Employed at Co-op Stores. He died in 1967 at Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire. Father of Brian and Desmond. Brian lived on Downing Row, Hathersage and for many years played the drums for the AD4 Dance Band. He died in 1981.

122754 Pnr R.E. 294550 Pte Lab Corps.  b 1873 Hathersage, 1881C living at Nether Hall Lodge, 1911C at The Booths. Brother to George Alfred Hickinson and uncle to Austin Hickinson, John Cotterill Hickinson and HICKINSON, William Henry.

Z/12967  R N V R.., joined late in the war and after training at Crystal Palace ‘H.M.A. Victory VI’,  he spent a very harsh winter at Scapa Flow naval base in the Orkneys. He was discharged from the Navy in Feb 1919. It is possible he would have seen the arrival of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in Nov 1918 to Jan 1919, but would not have witnessed its infamous scuttling on 21/6/1919.  b 23/6/1900 Aston, 1911C at Thornhill.  His father William was born in Hathersage, and in 1925 Kellys Directory; he farmed at Tor Farm, Hazleford. 1911C his grandfather George had Broadhay Farm. Sometime after 1912 the family moved back into the village, probate record states Leadmill Farm.  He died in 1950 from lung cancer, the probate record states; of Leadmill Farm

ß ă Щ  187733 Acting Sgt  Works Bn D L I, later A.S.C. (DC 21/9/1918; ‘Sgt, Army Service Corps Observer, ‘home on leave this week’).  b 1879 and lived 1 Crossland Road, Hathersage, a joiner and decorator. Father of Austin Hickinson, brother to Hugo Charles Hickinson, uncle of John Cotterill Hickinson and William Henry Hickinson. Wife; Gertrude.

Pte 366795 Northumberland Fusiliers. b 1899 Leeds, 1911C Leeds, his father; John Francis Hickinson b 1867 Hathersage and 1871 C living at The Dale, Hathersage.

✟ ≠ Pte 26094 2nd Bn Lincs Regt.  KIA 31/7/1917. Remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, also at St James, Kalendar Memorial, St James Church, Grimsby. (There is a pamphlet published listing all the fallen from Grimsby). b1887 Grimsby. 1911C living in Grimsby, a marine fireman. Son of Edwin (some times; Edward) Hickinson b 1866 Hathersage and on 1911C living in Grimsby a blacksmith’s striker, who had two siblings, both b Hathersage (to mother Ann Higginson b 1821 Barnsley. On 1871C she was a widow), John William b 1870 and Elizabeth b 1868. On their birth register they are called ‘Higginson’. By 1881C their mother Ann had remarried and become Ann Clark, living in Lincolnshire and the children’s name changed to ‘Hickinson’, future records including marriage then used ‘Hickinson’ and Edwin alternates between Edward and Edwin.  John William never married, but Elizabeth on 1911C is widowed, (her husband had been a mariner) living in Grimsby and she had two sons who served, who were therefore Ernest’s cousins; see below for James Henry Johnstone b Grimsby 1891, and George Arthur Johnstone also b Grimsby.

ß ⚜ (DC 27/7/1918, Joined the colours 25 July 1918, previously worked on munitions in Sheffield). On the Scouts Board shown as served in the Notts & Derbys Regt.  b 1900 Hathersage, son of George Alfred and Gertrude, nephew of Hugo Charles Hickinson, and cousin of John Cotterill Hickinson and William Henry Hickinson. 1901C & 1911C living at The Dale, Hathersage. He was the father of Jean Hickinson who married Don Gray from Stannington and whose family lived at Hathersage.

b 1878.  (DC 28/9/1918 Grade3, (40) working at Hathersage, granted 4 months exemption). Unlikely to have been called up after that. 1911C Arthur Hickinson, living at Overstones, Hathersage, a gritstone setter, Wife; Ann Priestly. He had a half-brother, Stenton Hickinson. Their mother was Clara Hickinson (later Clara Green)

✟ ≠ Pte 16755 Northumberland Fusiliers. Died 12/10/1915, buried Helles Memorial Cemetery. Gallipoli. b 1895 Stannington. 1911C at Stannington a spring knife cutler, His father Joseph Hickinson b 1864 Hathersage (The Dale). Brother of Leonard Furness Hickinson below.

Acting L/Cpl 26476 Kings Liverpool Regt.  b 1891 Clay Cross. 1911C at Mansfield Woodhouse, a coal miner. His wife was Annie Elizabeth Lewis b1891 Hathersage and her mother was Sarah Ann Schofield.