Mexborough and Swinton Times September 3, 1937

In Shanghai
Brampton Man’s Cable
Family Reassured

Old friends at Lundhill, Wombwell, will be pleased to hear that all goes well with Sergeant Frank Peasgood, son of Mrs Peasgood, 8 Rother Street, Brampton and the late Mr Robert Peasgood, the only “bit of Wombwell” in Shanghai.

Fearing, presumably, that his family will be worrying about Sgt Peasgood sent a cable a few days ago to assure them that he is “okay.”

Sgt Peasgood is an “old boy” of Ellis School Hemingfield, and as a youth was employed as a haulage hand at Cortonwood.

Something of a “giant” physically, he was goalkeeper for several season for Lundhill football club. At the age of 22 years he was accepted as a candidate for the Shanghai Municipal Police Force, and has now been in the Orient seven years. Sometimes he was attached to the CID

Sgt Pease good’s last letter was written in July last, before the outbreak of the present hostilities. It was then hot” at Shanghai in the literal sense, for he mentions going to swim at 10:15 p.m. with  the temperature at 87°. He was amused to see an English “Stevens Ink” thermometer showing 76° as “summer heat.” When he wrote, the temperature was 100 degrees in the shade and had “been like it for weeks.”