British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920
Name: Henry George Haskell
Gender: Male
Birth Date: abt 1870
Marriage Date: 29 Sep 1910
Marriage Place: Winchester
Age: 45
Document Year: 1915
Residence Place:26 Hyde Street, Winchester
Regimental Number: 21723
Regiment Name: Army Service Corps
British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
Name: Joe Cooke
Gender: Male
Birth Date: abt 1881
Enlistment Age: 37
Marriage Date: 6 May 1903
Marriage Place: King Souberine
Document Year: 1918
Residence Place: Forest Side Blackmore, Hants
Regimental Number: 535325
UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
Name: Ernest Haskell
Birth Place: Ampfield, Hants
Residence: Romsey, Hants
Death Date: 25 Sep 1915
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: Winchester, Hants
Rank: Private
Regiment: Duke of Edinburgh's (Wilthsire) Regiment
Battalion:2nd Battalion
Regimental Number: 19815
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
Comments: Formerly 3875, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
50576. Henry James Payne Haskell
HASKELL, Private Harry James No.10977 5th Bn.
Born Sept. 4, 1893, at Ampfield, Hampshire, the son of the late Harry Haskell, a painter on
Sir George A. Cooper's Hursley Park Estate, and Anne (n�e Bone) Haskell of Ampfield. He was educated at Church Scholl, Ampfield.On Sept. 7, 1915, he enlisted in the 5th Dorsets at Blandford, Dorset, at which time he was living at Ampfield. He was unmarried. On Aug. 10, 1915, in the vicinity of Kiretch Tepe Sirt, Suvla, he was received a gunshot wound in the left leg, and was evacuated to Malta onboard H.M. Hospital Ship Neuralia. He arrived at Malta on Aug. 29. On the following day (Aug. 30) his leg was amputated above the knee, but tetanus set in shortly after and he died the following day at 6 p.m. (Aug. 31, 1915), aged 21 years.
He was buried in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta, the same day.
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UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
Name: Harry James Haskell
Birth Place: Ampfield, Hants
Residence: Ampfield
Death Date: 31 Aug 1915
Death Place: Malta
Enlistment Place: Blandford, Dorset
Rank: Private
Regiment: Dorsetshire Regiment
Battalion:5th Battalion
Regimental Number: 10977
Type of Casualty: Died of wounds
Theatre of War: Other areas
29072. William Augustus Haskell
Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society, Vol 3 # 2, Page 2
William Augustus Haskell 1862-1911
By Barbara CockerhamMy maternal grandfather William Augustus Haskell was born in Fareham, Hampshire on 10th April 1862. He was the third son of Henry and Caroline Catherine (nee Payne) and had a younger brother and sister. Apart from this brother, Horatio, who emigrated to Australia, the family stayed in the Hampshire / Sussex / Surrey area for some years.
William Augustus became a gardener at Tongham in Surrey, but as he was allergic to some plants or soil conditions, he was obliged to change his job. One of his brothers had gone to live in Yorkshire, and William joined him there. He was appointed to the West Riding Constabulary on 19th March 1888, and attached to the Staincroft Division near Barnsley on 28th June of that year. He returned to Sussex to marry Phoebe Elizabeth Markwick. a seamstress, at Maresfield Parish Church on 13th December 1888. after which they set up their married home at Ardsley near Barnsley, where their four children were born.
His career was somewhat turbulent, as according to Police Records he was "advanced from 3 to 2 grade ... " "advanced from 2 to 1 grade" and appointed to Good Conduct Merit", during the first seven years. In April 1898 he was "reduced from 1 to 3 grade and deprived of his G.C.M.", but the following year he earned Grade 2 and by September 1900 he had attained Grade 1, and been granted his G.C.M. once more. So what was going on? I never knew.
From Ardsley the family moved to Langsett during the construction of the waterworks and reservoir there for Sheffield Corporation. This seems to have been the most violent time of his career and lasted from 1897 to 1902. His Police Record shows that at various times he was kicked and assaulted by a drunken navvy, badly bitten on the leg by a dog, and had his hand bitten when attempting to arrest a drunken man. He was kicked and jumped on, his hand and a finger were broken and he sustained a fractured leg. After this assault he was carried home on a farm gate to the kitchen, where there was an oil lamp for lighting, a coal fire for heating, and cold water at the stone sink. Thus he was made "comfortable" - and recovered!
In 1902 P.C. Haskell and his family were moved to the Police House, at Carlecotes a few miles away, and to a gentler but more demanding way of life. The house looked imposing, for it was double-fronted, and the Police Badge was fixed above the front door. Inside, the amenities were as before, with one extra room - a cell! The children left Langsett School the two eldest went to earn their livings as "mothers' helps" in the village, and the two youngest were transferred to Hazlehead, from where they were awarded scholarships to Penistone Grammar SchooL My mother - the eldest child - used to say, "I loved my dad". I think they all did for he made time to be with them, to teach them, to help them, to play games with them, and to enjoy jokes and pranks together. He brought presents and news from the outside world of Barnsley and Sheffield where he had to attend courts and assizes. The Police House was the family home for nine happy years.
After going off duty on 16th February 1911, this kind and diligent man became ill with a chest infection. Serious symptoms developed into pneumonia. A newspaper report reads, "In spite of every attention from his wife, two trained nurses, a medical man and afterwards a doctor of advice, he died a week later 24th February 1911". He was 48.
Part of an obituary in the local press reads as follows:
"P.C. Haskell earned the highest respect. not only of the officers and comrades in the Force, but also of the inhabitants of the districts where he was stationed".
His funeral was at Penistone Cemetery, and attended by a Chief Constable, three Inspectors, four Sergeants and twenty-two Constables, as well as by family, friends and local dignitaries.
The Police Record has the last word-
"Date of Removal from Force, 25th February 1911".