Mexborough and Swinton Times May 12, 1917

Private J.G.Armitage
(Royal Irish),

formerly of Thurnscoe, and latterly of 18 Garden St, Masbrough, has been wounded in action a third time.

He is a native of Thurnscoe, and worked at Hickleton Main a good many years. He enlisted early in the war, and was wounded in Gallipoli in August 21, 1915.
He was again wounded on the Somme on September 3, 1916 and was wounded a third time in Belgium and April 3, 1917.

He is now in the Wharncliffe War Hospital, Sheffield recovering from a bullet wound in the right thigh.