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ß ă Щ (Shown as Frank in various records, on the Bible Class Board and in WHW2W).  214431 L/Cpl  A Res Coy. Sp Brigade R.E.  b 1886 Gloucester. 1911C  a boarder at 2 Station Cottages, Padley, a stationary engineman, married to Elizabeth (née Wiggett), b1892 Hathersage. 1918 his Absent Voters address; School Road, Hathersage.

✟ ≠ 13624 Pte 6 East Yorkshire Regt. He enlisted 16/10/1914 in Sheffield. In July 1915 he was posted to the Balkans, where he stayed 12 months. Afterwards he was in France. In his service record is a note that information had been received by Mrs James Harling, Steeple House, Eyam, through the agency of the Red Cross at Geneva, relating of her husband, who had been missing since March 23rd last. The letter reads as follows:- “we are grieved to inform you that the following report appears in an official German ‘list of the dead’ despatched from Berlin, July 1st 1918: ‘Harling J., 13624, 6th East Yorks, was killed and buried in a common grave 400 metres before the entrance of the village of Vraignes on the right side of the way. Date unknown”.

He was later reburied in Hancourt British Cemetery, France. (DC 5/10/1918, ‘One of the early volunteers, took part in Dardanelles Expedition. Reported missing last March, now confirmed KIA 29/3/1918’).  He left a widow and one child. He was formerly in the employ of Messrs West and Son, boot manufacturers, Eyam. He is also commemorated on Eyam Memorial.  b 1886 Sheffield, 1911C at Burch Place, Eyam and in the shoe trade. Brother in law to Joe Wilson, b Hathersage, as he married Joe’s sister Sarah, b Hathersage, on 30/12/1908. James’ death was reported on the same day as Joe’s, see below.

53794 Pte 21 Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regt. Later 580337 Leicestershire Regt and 46075 Labour Corps.  b 1878 Sheffield. 1901C was in HMP Wakefield, convicted of wilful damage to an oil painting??    1911C, a joiner, recently moved to The Dale, Hathersage.

T/330315 Dvr R.A.S.C.  b 1884 Horsforth, Leeds. 1911C, living at Station Road, Hathersage, a purifier at a flour mill. (Arthur Mann boarded at the same address, see below)

Pte 115926 M G Corps (Motorised). b1892 Stoney Middleton. His mother was Mary Ann Buttery b1855 Hathersage. Cousin to Percy Luther Buttery and James Luther Buttery above, and to Percy and Sydney Skerritt, and Luther Priestley below.

née `Toucas. b 1879 France, died 1924 France. Wife of Harry Austin Hamilton KIA 1916, see above. Remarried 1920. Red Cross record; 10 Heathclose, Hampstead Way, London NW4. Quartermaster and Transport Driver at Hathersage VAD Hospital.   Her son Lt Col Anthony Edmond Hubert Hamilton OBE KIA 24/2/1944 WW2 at Anzio.

Possibly full time nurse Longshaw Red Cross Hospital

✟ ≠ Capt in the Territorials 1911. (Advert in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph 16/9/1911; ‘Capt H A Hamilton Adjutant, 3rd West Riding Brigade R.F.A. based at Edmund Road Barracks, Sheffield, wishes to hire horses for a series of training camps at Redmires Racecourse’). Major 23 Brigade R F A. (DC 8/1/1916, an article on ‘Hathersage Officers Mentioned in Despatches’ includes; ‘Major H A Hamilton who is well known in the village’)  K.I.A. 25/1/1916, and buried Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. b 1880 Edinburgh. Married to Madelaine M.M.E. Hamilton, b 1879 France. Their son Lt Col Anthony Edmond Hubert Hamilton OBE was KIA 24/2/1944 at Anzio.

See Joseph Austin Hallam above.

Pte 29122 Alexandra Princess of Wales Own  Yorkshire Regt.  b 1897 Rastrick, Yorks.  1911C in Rastrick. His father, Ashton Hall b 1859 Hathersage and 1861C living at Hathersage Lane, Outseats. He had two other sons; Charles and Albert, both of Military age but no details found.