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Soldier – Johnson T. – Prisoner In Borneo

March 1943
South Yorkshire Times, March 20, 1943 Prisoner In Borneo T. Johnson, son of Mr. D. Johnson and the late Mrs. Johnson, of 73 Main Street, Goldthorpe,...

Soldier – Hirst F. – Presumed Dead

November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 11th 1944 Presumed Dead Mr. and Mrs. S. Hirst of 11, Windsor Square, Thurnscoe East, whose son, Spr. F. Hirst was reported...

Editorial – America’s Choice

4 November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 11th 1944 America’s Choice President Roosevelt’s re-election for a fourth term as President of the United States is not surprising, but in...

Editorial – Election in the Air

4 November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 4th 1944 Election in the Air Since it seems that sooner or later we must resign ourselves to a resumption of the...

Splendid Boxing Show at Thurnscoe

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 28th 1944 Splendid Boxing Show at Thurnscoe The canteen at Hickleton Colliery was well filled on Saturday for N.C.A.B.A. rules in aid...

Editorial – Root and Branch

21 October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 21st 1944 Root and Branch If Hitler and Himmler have their way the war will go on for a good deal yet,...

Dearne District Agricultral  Society

September 1970
South Yorkshire Times, September 5, 1970 Dearne District Agricultral  Society Jayne Smith and Dawn Lowe, of Thurnscoe, following events with the aid of a programme at...

Three Months’ Sentence For Thurnscoe Soldier

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 14th 1944 Three Months’ Sentence For Thurnscoe Soldier Having been committed for trial from Halesworth Police Court, Pte. B. Inscoe (25), whose home...

Editorial – “White Paper” On Peace

14 October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 14th 1944 “White Paper” On Peace A White Paper on international security.  That description seems to fit the report on the Dumbarton...

Nurse Goes Overseas

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 7th 1944 Nurse Goes Overseas Nurse Florence Mary Marsh, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Marsh, of 15 Saxon Street, Thurnscoe,...

Editorial – A Winter Campaign?

7 October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 7th 1944 A Winter Campaign? With Christmas less than three months away and the Germans still hanging on grimly to their frontier...

“What We Have We Hold”

March 1933
South Yorkshire Times, March 10, 1933 “What We Have We Hold” Thurnscoe Victoria players chair their captain, Sid Mace, after winning the Mexboro’ Challenge Cup for...

The Great Blizzard

March 1933
South Yorkshire Times  March 3, 1933 The Great Blizzard The severest snowstorm in living memory broke over South Yorkshire on Friday afternoon and continued without intermission...

Editorial – A Great Step Forward

30 September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 30th 1944 A Great Step Forward Having held the pass for a critical period in this greatest of wars Britain now proposes...

Marconigrams – September 30th, 1944

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 30th 1944 Marconigrams Lt.-Col. H. R. Caulfield Giles, transport and traffic manager of Messrs. Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., addressed a meeting...

Soldier – Gethen , John – Killed In France

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 23rd 1944 Killed In France News has been received that Private John Gethen was killed in action in France on August 27th. Pte....

Soldier – Moore W.A. – Broadcast from India

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 23rd 1944 Broadcast from India On Sunday morning Driver W. A. Moore R.A., broadcast a message from India. He is the son of...

Soldiers – Savage Brothers – Thurnscoe Quartet

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 16th 1944 Some South Yorkshire Men In H.M. Forces Thurnscoe Quartet Mr. and Ms. G. J. Savage, of 35, Butcher St., Thurnscoe, have...

Soldier – Street, Richard C. – Killed In Action

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 16th 1944 Killed In Action Official information as been received that Private Richard C. Street, Leicester Regiment, was killed in action on...

Editorial – The Fight for the Rhine

23 September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 23rd 1944 The Fight for the Rhine Since the last war the fact that Germany “gave in too soon” has often been...

Editorial – The Nazi Struggle for Survival

16 September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 16th 1944 The Nazi Struggle for Survival Hitler’s boasts that he had thrust the war six hundred miles from the frontiers of...

Marconigrams – September 16th, 1944

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 16th 1944 Marconigrams Wombwell  U.D.C. have served notice to quit on one of their tenants who has not properly cultivated his garden. Major...

Editorial – The Nazi Struggle for Survival

16 September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 16th 1944 The Nazi Struggle for Survival Hitler’s boasts that he had thrust the war six hundred miles from the frontiers of...

Marconigrams – September 09th 1944

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 9th 1944 Marconigrams Collections for the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund in the Dearne area for the month of August realised £130/11/1. Final figures...

Editorial – Sparring For the Knock-Out

9 September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 9th 1944 Sparring For the Knock-Out Where the German army overran Holland, Belgium, and France in a matter of weeks the Allies...