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Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 25 September 1943
Montagu Hospital
The Week’s Casualty List
The following casualties were treated at Mexborough Montagu Hospital during the...
Editorial – Japan’s Turn
South Yorkshire Times, 28 October 1944
Japan’s Turn
Japan, looking on helplessly while the destruction of German militarism proceeds apace, is now gravely threatened in...
Editorial – Pitfalls of Peace
South Yorkshire Times, 22 January 1944
Pitfalls of Peace
An estrangement such as that which has developed between the Soviet and the Polish Governments is the...
Editorial – Russian Recoil
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 08 January 1944
Russian Recoil
It is nearly two and a half years since the German armies crossed the old Soviet-...
Soldier – Hoyland, Frank – Promotion
South Yorkshire Times, September 18th 1943
Promotion
Mr. Frank Hoyland, who is well-known in school circles, being on the staff of the Thurnscoe Hill Boys’ School...
Editorial – Into the New Year
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 01 January 1944
Into the New Year
As we stand on the threshold of the New Year there is an air...
Editorial – Hammer And Sickle
South Yorkshire Times, 08 July 1944
Hammer And Sickle
Russia, whose war machine the Allies have never ceased to nourish, now sees her great opportunity and...
Editorial – Down But Not Out
South Yorkshire Times, 12 August 1944
Down But Not Out
It would be cheering to think that the United Nations had finally got Germany on the...
Editorial – Pontine Portent
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 29 January 1944
Pontine Portent
After Dieppe and Salerno the successful establishment of the Pontine bridgehead constitutes a bright augury,...
Editorial – Four Years of War
South Yorkshire Times, September 11th 1943
Four Years of War
Looking back across four years of war, as we do to-day, we cannot help but...
Editorial – A Well Kept Watch
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944
A Well Kept Watch
On Sunday the Home Guard formally “stands down.” In the critical days which followed the Dunkirk...
Soldier – Ogden, Alfred – Soldier Traced.
South Yorkshire Times, July 24, 1943
Soldier Traced.
News has been received of Dvr. Alfred Ogden (22), of the R.A., third son of Mr. and Mrs....
Mr & Mrs Critchley – Golden Wedding.
South Yorkshire Times, July 24, 1943
Golden Wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Critchley, 13,Green Gate Close, Bolton, celebrated their golden wedding on Monday.
Both are natives of...
Soldier – Ogden, Alfred – Rescued From Japs
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944
Rescued From Japs
Gnr. Alfred Ogden R.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ogden, 20, Dane Street, Thurnscoe East,...
Soldier – Brown, Douglas – With Front Line Laundry
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944
With Front Line Laundry
Thurnscoe Man’s Unusual Job
Laundrymen in battle-dress are doing valuable work in the mobile laundry and bath...
Editorial – Hard Pounding
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944
Hard Pounding
General Eisenhower, like Wellington at Waterloo, is seeing who can pound longer. It is a test of many...
Editorial – Well Begun
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 17 July 1943
Well Begun
The Second Front, about which so much has been said and written, particularly since Mr. Churchill...
Marconigrams – July 17th, 1943
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 17 July 1943
Marconigrams
More than 100,000 road passenger transport workers in England and Wales will benefit by an agreement...
Hickleton 143 for 4 Doncaster Town 142 – Hickleton Square Accounts.
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 10 July 1943
Hickleton Square Accounts.
Doncaster, the only team who have gained a victory over Hickleton, were at Thurnscoe...
Second P.M. Settles Cause of Baby’s Death
South Yorkshire Times, November 18th 1944
Second P.M. Settles Cause of Thurnscoe Baby’s Death
No neglect at Montagu Hospital
Evidence of a pathologist called in to...
Airman – Walker, Ronald – Airman’s Funeral
South Yorkshire Times, November 18th 1944
Airman’s Funeral
The interment took place at Thurnscoe on Friday of Sgt. Ronald Walker (22), R.A.F., son of Mr. and...
Soldier – Johnson T. – Prisoner In Borneo
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
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
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
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...