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HAGUE, JOHN H.
Regiment: Seaforth Highlanders, 2nd Battalion
Rank: Private
Service No. S/5582
Date of Death: 03 May 1917
Enlisted: Beighton, Derbyshire
Born in Eckington
Living at 8 Nursery Road, Swallownest, Sheffield
Son of Thomas and Clara Hague
Cemetery: ROEUX BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE. Link
Grave Ref. D43
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston
HARDY, ERIC
Regiment: The Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C., 2nd Wing
Rank: Sergeant
Service No. 4755630
Killed in a flying accident 31 May 1945. At 1420 hours, Hotspur HH 354 was cast off from Miles Master DM 448. The Glider turned towards the airfield and the port wing struck a tree: the glider turned over on its back and crashed. (Originally reported as 25 May 1945).
Son of William Godfrey Hardy and Nellie Hardy of The Beeches, Worksop Road, Swallownest, Sheffield. Husband of Connie Hardy.
Cemetery: ASTON-CUM-AUGHTON CEMETERY near Sheffield
Grave No. 116
Remembered in the Second World War Roll of Honour Book in All Saints Church, Aston
HARE, CYRIL, M.M.
Regiment: Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment).
Rank: Private.
Husband of Mrs. Elizabeth Hare of 2 Seymore Road, Aston, Sheffield.
Private Hare was badly wounded in 1942 during the Battle of El Alamein after stepping on a mine after taking German prisoners. He insisted on other wounded being attended to first
and he was awarded the Military Medal presented by King George VI, for bravery in this action. Died of his wounds on 3rd July 1954.
Not named on a local war memorial.
HARRISON, GEORGE REUBEN
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: 9th Bn., King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Service No. 21230
Date of Death: 16th September 1916, age 20
Son of James and Betsy Harrison of 74 Worksop Road, Swallow Nest, Sheffield
Cemetery: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE. Link
Grave/ Memorial Ref. Pier and Face 11C and 12A
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston.
HAYNES, GEORGE WILLIAM
Regiment: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, Sherwood Foresters, 17th Battalion.
Rank: Private.
Service No. 235080.
Date of Death: 4th August 1917, age 20.
Son of Francis Charles and Elizabeth Haynes of 67 St. Helens Street, Chesterfield.
Lived in Woodhouse Mill.
Cemetery: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, BELGIUM. Link
Grave/Memorial Ref. Panel 39 and 41.
Remembered on the Woodhouse Mill First World War Memorial.
HILL, TOM
Regiment: King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 8th Battalion
Rank: Private
Service No.12771
Date of Death 01 July 1916, age 25
Son of John and Harriet Hill, of 13, Falconer Lane, Fence; husband of Evelyn B. Hill, of 9, Tuffolds Close, Manor Estate, Sheffield
Cemetery: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE. Link
Grave/Memorial Ref. Pier and Face 11 C and 12 A.
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston
Remembered on the Woodhouse Mill First World War Memorial
HOLDER, B. G.
Who died in the First World War.
Remembered on the Woodhouse Mill First World War Memorial.
Extensive research online has failed to find any record of B. G. Holder.
HOWDEN, JOHN
Regiment: King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 7th Battalion.
Rank: Rifleman.
Service No. R/11178. Enlisted in Attercliffe, Sheffield.
Date of Death: 19 August 1916, age 27.
Husband of Georgina Jones (formerly Howden) of 106 Clay Street, Attercliffe, Sheffield.
Cemetery: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE. Link
Grave/Memorial Ref. Pier and Face 13A and 13B.
Remembered on the Woodhouse Mill First World War Memorial.
HUGHES, RALPH
Who died in the First World War
Remembered in Holy Trinity Church, Ulley
HUNT, GEORGE HENRY
Regiment: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment), 1st Battalion
Rank: Private
Service No. 14292480
Date of Death: 06 May 1943, age 32
Son of Willie and Sarah Ann Hunt of 9 Clumbes Terrace, New Street, Dinnington, Sheffield.
Husband of Ellen Hunt, of 35 Shaldon Grove, Aston, Sheffield.
Cemetery: MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY. Link
Grave I.D. 18
Remembered in the Second World War Roll of Honour Book in All Saints Church, Aston