Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 25 November 1939

An Army Goalkeeper

The football tradition, which has made South Yorkshire famous has been carried into the army by L/Bomb. Arthur Dodds, son of Mrs. Dodds and the late Mr. James Dodds, of 22, Knoll-beck Avenue, Brampton. Dodds plays goal for his battery and it is his proud boast that they have lost only one match in the whole of their career as a team. L/Bomb.

Dodds has been in the Army three years and for the past twelve months has been abroad. After the outbreak of the war his mother had not a word of him for seven weeks, but at last her anxiety was relieved by a long, cheerful letter, in which he said he was very happy and she was not to worry. Dodds has found the Army very much to his liking and has picked up a couple of stripes already.

Incidentally, Mrs. Dodd’s first husband was killed at Ypres in 1915 His name (Serg Clarke) is on the war memory at Wombwell.

Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 25 November 1939