BRIGHT, Malcolm.

BRIGHT, Malcolm. Became a Merchant Seaman before a Lt in the Royal Navy Reserve. Born 1876 at Sheffield, married at Hathersage on 11/12/1916 to Annie Louisa Dimbleby living at Yarncliffe, Fox House, and b 1885. Witnesses were Rev E J H Brooksbank and John Smith. Malcolm was initiated into the Royal Brunswick Masonic Freemasons Lodge on 12/1/1914 when an Officer in Merchant Service. His parents were Joseph and Elizabeth Anne, living at Dore in 1881C.

COAPE-ARNOLD, Raymond de Newburgh.

COAPE-ARNOLD, Raymond de Newburgh. †   1915 gazetted Lt  6 South Staffordshire Regt. 1917 joined R A F. 48 Wing 200 Squadron. Killed in a flying accident on 26/6/1918. His plane crashed at Botany Bay Crossing, Babworth, Notts (Probate Record). He is buried at the Family Church cemetery at Wolvey near Hinckley and remembered on a memorial in Longdon St. Mary’s Church. b Wolvey 1891, to Henry Fraser James and Mary Georgina Cope-Arnold of Wolvey Hall. 1901C at Oak View Boarding School, Hathersage.

DENSON, William Henry.

DENSON, William Henry. †  Pte 7056  1st North Staffs Regt (Prince of Wales Own). Was a regular soldier before WW1 and on 1911Census he was serving in India. He went to France just after the outbreak of war on 10/9/1914. KIA 31/7/1917 age 33. Remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, (panel 55). b1884 Newcastle under Lyme. His daughter Mary Catherine and her mother Dora Ann Wilson were both born in Hathersage, and their descendants still live in the village.

DOHERTY, Frederick Albert.

DOHERTY, Frederick Albert. † ≠ Pte 748036 5th Canada Mounted Rifles. Quebec Reg’t).D of W 9/4/1917 buried  Écoivres Military Cemetery, near Arras, France where his age is given as 20 (but he is shown as born in 1895 at West Bromwich on1901C, when the family of six was living in Birmingham. By 1911C he was in Canada. His mother was Lucy Hudson, b 1873 Hathersage. In the 1871C her father Joseph was proprietor of the Millstone Inn, Hathersage. She had four children who all went off to Canada in 1910, although earlier in 1910 the youngest child Norman was in the Hospital wing of the Workhouse in West Derby. Father Frederick nowhere to be found. 1911C mother, age 38; Inmate Walton on the Hill Workhouse, Liverpool, but in 1917 his mother Lucy is shown on his grave record as living at 47 Forest Lane, Stratford, London.

GREENWOOD, Joseph

GREENWOOD, Joseph. ß Щ      Although shown as Joseph on the Bible Class board, it has not been possible find anything of Joseph’s military involvement, b 1882 at Glossop. Son of Albert Greenwood b 1861 Glossop, and Emily (née Higginson – although called Newton when she was born) b Hathersage, and he married Minnie Winterbottom (Josiah’s wife’s sister) b Outseats. On both the 1901C (living in Norfolk) and 1911C Joseph is listed as a railway contractor. The reference to Joseph on the Bible Board probably should read Josiah. The confusion probably arose because of a mistake by the military records where the service medal and award rolls show Josiah Greenwood Dvr 72017 RFA, and Pioneer 197143 RE (which would fit with Josiah being a Navvy) and the same numbers & regiments appear on the medals list for Joseph Greenwood.

GREENWOOD, Josiah.

GREENWOOD, Josiah. Dvr 72017 RFA, Pioneer 197143 RE. b1884 Glossop. Brother of Joseph, son of Albert Greenwood b 1861 Glossop, and Emily (née Higginson – although called Newton when she was born) b Hathersage. He was shown as a soldier, and already a widower on his marriage certificate in Feb 1918 when he married Elsie Winterbottom (Joseph’s wife’s sister) at Barlow. In 1911C Josiah is listed as a railway contractor navvy, when living in Llansamlet, Wales, with his first wife Louisa and two children. The reference to Joseph on the Bible Board probably should read Josiah, The confusion probably arose because of a mistake by the military records, where the service medal and award rolls has Josiah Greenwood Dvr 72017 RFA, and Pioneer 197143 RE (which would fit with Josiah being a Navvy) and the same numbers & regiments appear on the medals list for Joseph Greenwood.

HORAN, William.

HORAN, William. Cpl T4/041018 RASC. Lived at 66 St Thomas Road, Crookes, Sheffield. Married Lilian Hilton of Barnfield Cottage, Hathersage in September 1917. He enlisted 5/1/1915 as an Ostler and went to France 9/9/1915 in 3rd Company 21st Division and served later in the Army of Occupation until 30/4/1920. His wife died late 1965, registered at Sheffield.

MIDDLETON, Edgar.

MIDDLETON, Edgar. 2/Lt Transport Regt. British Expeditionary Force, France. B c1878, married Lilian Sara Middleton b c1883 his cousin, at Hathersage 31/5/1917. They later emigrated to South Africa where he became a police Officer for the S A High Commission and where she died 11/2/1928. 1911C she was living with her parents at 40 Wostenholme Road, Sheffield and four of her five siblings.