1939
Sailor – Pascoe, Arthur – Likes Navy
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 11 November 1939
Darfielder Likes Navy
A grand story of adventure at sea it would be if Able Seaman Arthur...
Soldier – Cartwright J. – Ready for the Huns
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 25 November 1939
Ready for the Huns
Gunner J. Cartwright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright, of Station Road, has...
Soldier – Dawes, Robert Charles- “Fares Please” In France
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday, November 18, 1939
"Fares Please" In France
A familiar and popular figure has been lost to the Upton-Sheffield bus route...
Soldier – Dodds, Arthur – An Army Goalkeeper
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 25 November 1939
An Army Goalkeeper
The football tradition, which has made South Yorkshire famous has been carried into the...
Soldier – Haines E.R. – With Famous General
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 25 November 1939
With Famous General
To have appeared on a photograph with General Gamelin, the Fench Commander in Chief,...
Soldier – Leather, Colin – Leaves Good Business Career
Mexborough and Swinton Times November 4, 1939
Mr Colin Leather
Mr Colin leather, 24 years old son of Mr and Mrs Clifford Leather, 35, Mellor Rd,...
Soldiers – C.L.B. Traditions – Tabor, Smith, Leather, Spence & Cutler
Mexborough and Swinton Times November 4, 1939
C.L.B. Traditions
The Church Lads' Brigade is not a military organisation, but in times of national stress it never...
Soldiers – Hall Brothers – Two Sons Serving – “Don’t Worry” Message
Mexborough and Swinton Times November 4, 1939
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hall, of Illsley Road. Darfield, have two sons serving in H.M. Forces, one somewhere...
Soldiers – Jones , Tom & Ernest & Wolsey, Henry – Brothers In Arms
Mexborough and Swinton Times November 4, 1939
Brothers In Arms
Wombwell has a family from which three sons have gone up to the colours.
Two are sergeants...
Editorial – “I Would” and “I Dare Not”
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 04 November 1939
"I Would" and "I Dare Not"
Still, like the cat i' the adage would" waits upon...