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ß ă Щ (DC 11/3/1916. Works at Hathersage Gas Company, granted a temporary two months exemption). 1918 Absent voters list shows him as DM2/189337 Pte BMTD, A.S.C..  living at Mona House, (Station Road), Hathersage. b1882 Nottingham. 1911C living with his family at Station Road, Hathersage, a clerk at the gas works.

b Waleswood, Yorkshire, on 6/9/1890, to Walter and Harriet T. Hardwick Smith.  In 1914 she wasworking as housekeeper at Ivy Deane, Back Lane, Hathersage.  (see Marion Peace) Subsequently she took nursing courses and volunteered at the Hathersage Red Cross Auxiliary Hospital. While there she met and became engaged to patient Charles Milton Iles from Cornwall, Ontario, Canada.  (See above).  She emigrated in June 1919, and they were married on 10/12/1919.

He joined the 59 Bn Canadian Expedionary Force, in Cornwall, Ontario, on 2/4/1915, transferred to 410316 38 Battalion, C.E.F., on 10/6/1915 during its period of garrison duty in Bermuda. Landed in France with the 38 Bn on 13/8/1916. Wounded on 9 or 11/4/1917 and invalided to England on 12/4/1917, then sent to Hathersage Red Cross Auxiliary Hospital, where he met Elizabeth Smith (see below).  They were married on 10/12/1919.  b1882 Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, to Edward and Mary Iles.  At the time of his enlistment in 1915 his trade was a machine operator.

96473 Cpl  84 Brigade R.F.A.  410972  Labour Corps. 1901C no record found. b 1882 at Ordnance Arms where his father was licensee. 1911C, living in Sheffield, a cabinet case maker, (listed as WILLE IBBESON). Brother of Ernest Edward.

12/1121 Pte  12 Bn York and Lancs (Sheffield City Battalion). (Manchester Guardian, ‘Gunshot wound to thigh and left foot’), probably in Battle of the Somme. (DC 15/7/1916 & also in SDT 12/7/1916; listed as wounded in thigh and foot). Discharged 13/4/1917.  b1885. Father was licensee of the Ordnance Arms, Hathersage where he and brother William were born. Later lived at “ the Leach,” Leadmill when he worked for Messrs Ibbotson, of Globe Street Works, Sheffield as a commercial traveller, and at Ivy Cottage. Later he was a salesman for Bulmers Cider and lodged at the Scotsman’s Pack. He was a member of Hathersage Cricket Club & captain of Hathersage Football Club. In spite of his wounds, between the wars he was a useful medium pace bowler and good for a few runs with Hathersage first cricket team. Died 1949, age 64 (SDT 4/3/1949).

ă T2/12851 O/S Victory V1. R.N. Depot. He would probably have joined towards the end of the war. (DC 22/2/1919 discharged). b1899 Hathersage, 1911C  living with his uncle Thomas H B Ibbotson,  postman and coal agent, at ‘Holmedene’, Station Road, Hathersage. In 1918 on the Absent Voters list living at Bank View, Hathersage. Member of Hathersage B Legion in 1931.

Pte no 27986 Grenadier Guards. b 1879 Southport.1911C in Southport a painter. His wife was Myra Watts, b 1876 Hathersage, sister of Henry Watts & Isaac Watts.

✟ ≠ ⚜  J 60695 O/S RN killed 1/3/1917 aged 19. He was an Ordinary Seaman aboard “H M S Pheasant “, which struck a mine off Orkney. Remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial ref 25. b 1898 Horsforth, Leeds. Son of Charles M and Ann Hunt of 20 Wheat Street, Ingrow, Keighley. The family came from Horsforth but 1911C lived at 2 Crossland Road, Hathersage. He was a member of Hathersage Scouts.

M2/168010 Pte R A S C., M.T. (Motor Transport).  b 1887 Sheffield. 1901C family living at The Ordnance Arms, Hathersage where father Alfred was Landlord. Brother of Oliver.

7221 Pte 2 Bn Yorkshire Regiment, suffered from malaria (and a ‘social disease’!). Discharged 1916 and dead by 1919. b1885 Sheffield. 1901C family living at The Ordnance Arms, Hathersage where father Alfred was Landlord. Brother of Frank Leonard.