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✟ ≠ Pte 18934 8 Bn Kings Own Royal Lancashire Regt. KIA 2/3/1916 aged 17. Remembered on the  Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres. Also on Dalton-in-Furness Civic Memorial. b 1898(?) Dalton-in-Furness. 1911C at Dalton-in-Furness. His mother Mary Ann White, b 1870 Hathersage. 1871C she was living at “Old Sheffield Road“ (probably School Lane?), Hathersage. She became Mary Ann Spencer after the death of John’s father in 1913. Her mother Sarah Ann Wiggett was also born at Hathersage.

There is also second Alfred Gibson b 1889 Highlow, 1911 C living with his grandparents at Hathersage, a hackle pin grinder. He may have been in’ munitions’ during the war. The only thing we have on him is DC 10/4/1915; ‘scored a goal for the Bible Class football team’ –it looks as though he didn’t serve.

1911C he lived with Lt Col A H S Goff at “Hillside”, Hathersage, an Army Pensioner, and his chauffeur.  b 1871 St Osyth, Essex. Discharged from the Army 1909 having completed his term of service, Called up, or enlisted 278089 R.A.F. 11/5/1918 at the age of 48yr 9 mths, (details from his pension record).

Щ (spelt ‘Furniss’ in WHW2W). 344321 Colour Sgt Labour Corps.

b1872 Tideswell. 1911C, a butcher, Main Road, Hathersage. (DT 4/2/1911; Tideswell troop of the Derbyshire Imperial Yeomanry met, including S.Q.M.S. Furness from Hathersage’. Could be the same?)

✟ ≠ ß  Щ 20471 Pte 12 Bn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, killed 6/4/1917.  Buried Anzin-St Aubin British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Ref I.A.13. (DC 1/5/1917, listed as killed – formerly of Hathersage).  b 1888 White House Farm, Hathersage, (the Broomhead family farm – his mother was Maria Broomhead). 1911C living in Sheffield.

ă  285750 Ftr-Gnr 192 Siege Battery R.G.A. b 1887 Hathersage. 1911C, living on Main Road, Hathersage, a wire drawer. Address on 1918 absent voters list; Brook House, Hathersage. Brother of George Robert Frost.

26682 Pte 10 Bn Notts & Derbys.  b 1889 Hathersage, 1911C, living on Main Road, Hathersage, a hackle-pin grinder. Later lived on Crossland Rd, brother of Herbert Frost.

L/Cpl of A Coy 5 Volunteer (Hathersage) Battalion, attended A D King’s funeral in Nov 1918 (see below). He could have been one of the exempted ‘Froggatts’ above?).

✟ ≠ 70662 Pte 2 Bn Notts & Derbys. He enlisted 4/2/1915 and was in the Irish Rebellion in summer 1916 (Easter Rising?), before going to France in September. Killed 9/2/1917 when in the raid on German trenches near Mazingarbe, age 24. Grave; Vermelles British Cemetery , Pas De Calais. (Listed as P Froggett on Sherwood Foresters Roll). (DT 24/2/1917, article about his death with photograph, his mother Hannah (née Darwent b Thornhill), received a letter from a comrade and friend saying he was killed about 7.10 am and did not suffer). Also appears on Hope Memorial.  b 1892  Hazleford son of John Berrisford Froggatt and grandson of John Bocking Darwent, a well-known local preacher. Brother of John Beresford Froggatt above. Family farmed at Hazelford before moving to Thornhill following the untimely death of his father John in 1893. 1911C living at Thornhill.  Before joining up he worked for Aaron Turner, farmer of Bamford. He was the main supporter of the household.

(DC 26/10/1918, ‘Age 39, Grade 2. Coal Dealer with 500 customers and a farm of 36 acres, granted 4 months exemption’). Unlikely to have been called up later.  b 1879 Hathersage. 1911C Station Road, Hathersage, a widower, coal merchant and carter.