Month: October 2016

BALL, James Edward

669015 Plumber 166th Bn Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. Living in Toronto. b 1887 Stockton on Tees. 1891C living at Padley Wood Huts, Hathersage. His mother was Elizabeth Isabella Ball, wife of George Ball, who is remembered in Hathersage Churchyard, and who died Padley 24/3/1895, so not his father?

BAINES, Charles

ă  2/Lt N Mid Div R.E.  b 1888 Rotherham, 1911C living with parents in an eight roomed house at Saltergate, Bamford; a brass founders clerk, presumably in his father’s firm. Then on his Medal list and on the 1918 Absent Voters list living at; “The Winnats” Hathersage, (which is in Cannon Fields). 1933 shown as a Capt and a member of Hathersage British Legion.

BAGSHAW, Arthur

✟ Щ R/8104 Rifleman 1 Bn Kings Royal Rifle Corps. (Belper News 26/5/1916; ‘confirming his death, after being reported wounded and missing about 12 months ago. KIA during a bayonet charge at Festubert on 15/5/1915. He enlisted on 12/12/1914 and sent to France on 15/3/1915. The youngest son of the late Thomas Bagshaw of Harpur Lees, Hathersage’). Appears on Le Touret Memorial, France, Panel 32/33. He also appears on another memorial according to the inscription on Hathersage War Memorial.

b 1882 Abney. A Quarryman. 1891C living at Harper Lees, parents Thomas Bagshaw and Millicent Bagshaw. Moved to Hathersage as a boy and lived at Station Road, Hathersage, but by 1911C he was not in Hathersage. He later moved to Bacup Lancs where his wife Sarah Edith Bagshaw was living when he died and on his war gratuity payments in 1916 & 1919. N of K; J Bagshaw of 3 Waverley Ave, Thurcroft. Frank Priestley of Sheffield Road was also a relative.

ASTILL, George

✟≠  L/Cpl 1 Bn  Sherwood  Foresters.  KIA 27/12/1914.

b1895 in Hathersage, according to Family Tree and Census, (although Army papers show him born Keyworth and living in Hathersage on enlistment).  Family is shown as ‘Astell’ on the 1901C when the family were living in Keyworth. 1911C, in Plymton, Devon. Brother of Joseph William Astill.

ARNOLD, Raymond de Newburgh Coape

✟  1915 gazetted Lt  6 South Staffordshire Regt. 1917 joined R A F. Killed in a flying accident 26/6/1918. His plane crashed at Botany Bay Crossing, Babwith, Notts (Probate Record) He is buried at the Family Church at Wolvey near Hinckley (War Graves use Coape- Arnold as the surname). b Hinckley 1891, 1901C at Oak View Boarding School, Hathersage.