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Sailor – Machell, Horace – Wombwell Sailor Injured

May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 May 1941 Wombwell Sailor Injured On Service in Mediterranean Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Machell, of 16, Fitzwilliam Road,...

Killed In Raid.

May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 May 1941 Killed In Raid. Miss Mona Bedford (21), grand-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Wistow, The Bungalows, Edderthorpe...

Soldier – Harper, Robert Ypres – Killed in Action Out East

May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 31 May 1941 Killed in Action Wombwell Sapper Out East News was received last week that Sapper Robert Ypres Harper...

Soldier – Scargill, Albert Edward – Killed By Enemy Action

May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 31 May 1941 Killed By Enemy Action Wombwell Family's News of Soldier Son Sergeant Albert Edward Scargill, son of...

Soldier – Baxter C.H. – In Middle East – Wombwell Man’s Letter 

May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 May 1941 In Middle East Wombwell Man's Letter  "The people here have no dislike for the English and we get...

Soldier – Woolley, Paddy – Letters Wanted

May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 May 1941 Letters Wanted Paddy Woolley, a Jump boy serving in Iceland, writes to us asking us to...

Editorial – Recoil

3 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 03 May 1941 Recoil Once again Mr. Churchill has been called upon in an hour of black discouragement to rouse...

Editorial – Less Talk

10 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 10 May 1941 Less Talk The House of Commons debate, intended to be an inquest on the ill-fated expedition to...

Editorial – Rudolf Hess

17 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 17 May 1941 Rudolf Hess Rudolf Hess is a welcome gift in one sense, for he comes as light...

Editorial – Crete

24 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 May 1941 Crete The strategic necessities of the struggle in the Near East made it imperative for the...