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COOKES, Cyril

Bdr 123582 RGA  Anti-Aircraft Coy.  b 1880 Sheffield. 1911C in Sheffield, a cashier. His daughter Constance was b1906 at Hathersage.

COOK, Wilfred

M2/101239 A S C. M/271594 Pte 223rd Ambulance, R.A.M.C.  b 1883 Hemingbrough, Yorks. 1911C living at ‘Bungalow’, Jaggers Lane, Hathersage, a coachman (medical). Possibly for local GP Dr Lander, who lived almost opposite at ‘The Hollies’, Castleton Road.

COATES, Joseph

166986 Gnr R G A.  (DC. 7/9/1918; listed as L/Cpl., R.G.A. of Hathersage ’been home on leave’).  b 1885 Ashbourne.  He may have been the local policeman. Joseph Coates seemed to have served all over Derbyshire but some correspondence was sent to the Police Station Bamford.

CLAUDET, Frederick Herbert Bontemps

2469 Pte (Northumberland Artillery?) later A/Cpl Honourable Artillery Co. Wounded March 1915, He was given a Commission 2/Lt R F A 12/7/15, on coming out of hospital in Sheffield, where he met and later married John Capron’s sister ‘Dosy’ (see above). b 1889 Hampstead, living at Hove, Sussex at the time of his marriage in 1916. Brother of Bertram Claudet who also served.

CLARK, William Henry

✟ ≠ 12/617 Drummer Sheffield City Battalion & 1/4 Hallamshire Bn Y & L. D of W whilst a prisoner of war 27/10/1918. Grave; Boussu Communal Cemetery, Belgium. b 1893 Oddfellows Houses, Hathersage. Son of Joseph Henry & Lydia Clark.  Later living in Argyle Road, Meersbrook, Sheffield with his wife Winifred K, who had his gravestone inscribed; “There is a corner of a foreign field that is forever England”.

CHISLETT, William Arthur. O.B.E.

ă  Lt R F A, later Lt Colonel Home Guard and OBE (WW2)

b 1895 Rotherham. 1911C living at Rotherham, a law student.  1919 Absent Voters address; Belle Vue, Outseats, the family home, with his father Thomas Redmayne Chislett, bank manager who died there 1935, and his brother Thomas Herbert. (There was also an older brother Ralph b 1883 Rotherham, a chartered accountant, an eminent ornithologist but no Military record found for him)

CHISLETT, Thomas Herbert

142069 Signaller (later acting instructor) R G A.
b1886 Rotherham, 1911C Rotherham a bank cashier. 1919 living at ‘Belle Vue’, (now ‘Sladen’) Jaggers Lane, Outseats, with his father Thomas Redmayne Chislett, bank manager, who died there 1935, and his brother William Arthur. (There was also an older brother Ralph b 1883 Rotherham, a chartered accountant, and an eminent ornithologist but no Military record found for him)

CHEVENS, Louis

ß Щ  (Spelt Lewis on Bible board, in WHW2W and in DC & HPN). 12538 Pte 8 Bn Y & L. (SDT 15/7/1916 listed as in hospital suffering from wounds to the head). (HPN 9/12/1916; ‘Lewis has gone through a series of operations and has been moved to a convalescent camp in the south. He hopes to be in Hathersage before long’). 10/7/1917; discharged due to G.S.W to leg.  b 1894 Highlow,  1911C living at “The Hill, Outseats”.  Brother of Benjamin, John and Joseph.

1959 Mrs Lewis Chevins, living at 24 Hill Lane, Hathersage.