1917
Fashionable Thurnscoe Wedding
Mexborough and Swinton Times, September 8, 1917
The marriage took place on Wednesday at St Helens, Thurnscoe, of Mr William Eastland Ann, second son of...
Soldier – Oldfield H.– Wounded
Mexborough and Swinton Times September 15, 1917
Private H Oldfield
K.O.Y.L.I.
Thurnscoe – Wounded, Goldthorpe
Soldier – Sanderson J.A.– Killed
Mexborough and Swinton Times September 8, 1917
Sergeant J A Sanderson
Lancashire Fusiliers
Thurnscoe – Killed
Offences in Coal Mines – Large Number of Defendants At Doncaster
Leeds Mercury - Monday 08 October 1917
Offences in Coal Mines
Large Number of Defendants At Doncaster
A large number of pit employees were before the...
Cruelty to a Pony
Mexborough and Swinton Times October 13, 1917
A Thurnscoe pony driver, George Astbury, pleaded guilty to cruelty to a pony.
Mr W Baddiley, said there were...
Soldier – Deakin T. – Policeman Killed
Mexborough and Swinton Times October 27, 1917
Sgt T Deakin
Royal Field Artillery
Sgt Deakin, R.F.A., whose mother lives at Church Street Thurnscoe has been killed.
He...
Soldier – Dolby J. – Died of Wounds
Mexborough and Swinton Times October 20, 1917
Lance Corporal J Dolby
Mrs Dalby, School View, Thurnscoe, has received official, information that her husband Lance Corporal J...
Soldier – Wilson G.A. – Wounded and Missing
Mexborough and Swinton TimesNovember 24, 1917
Private G.A.Wilson
Machine Gun Corps
Thurnscoe – Wounded and Missing
C.W.G.C.: Possibly:
Private
WILSON, GEORGE ARTHUR
Service Number 10184
Died 26/08/1917
143rd Coy.
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Soldier – Dolby J.– Killed
Mexborough and Swinton Times , November 3, 1917
Lance Corporal J. Dolby
York and Lancaster
Thurnscoe – killed
From C.W.G.C.:
Lance Corporal
DOLBY, J T
Service Number 19387
Died 09/10/1917
Aged 33
6th Bn.
York...
Soldier – Cliff W. – Modest Thurnscoe Hero
Mexborough & Swinton Times, November 24, 1917
Modest Thurnscoe Hero
A correspondent who signs himself "One of the Medicals' (presumably a soldier of the R.A.M.C.), writes...