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Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List, June 21st 1941

June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 21 June 1941 Montagu Hospital The Week's Casualty List , The following patients were treated but not detained: Thursday NeIIie Dowson, 9,...

Soldier – Allsopp, John Alfred – In Iceland

June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times  June 28, 1941 In Iceland Driver John Alfred Allsopp (22), eldest son of Mr. Hubert Allsopp. 39, Taylor Street, Thurnscoe, was called...

Soldier – Bilbow, Walter – Somewhere at Sea

June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 07 June 1941 Private Walter Bilbow (21), of the R.A.M.C., only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bilbow,...

Soldier – Roper, Albert – Eight Months in Army

June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times, June 21, 1941 Service Snaps Private Albert Roper (17), son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Roper, 22, Garden Street, Thurnscoe, has already...

Soldiers – Blackburn, Horace, Harold & Walter

June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 07 June 1941 Three Thurnscoe brothers now in the Army are sons of Mrs. A. Blackburn and the late...

Editorial – After Crete

7 June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 07 June 1941 After Crete For the fourth time the Nazis have thrust us into the sea. Our expulsion...

Editorial – “The Answer to Defeat is Victory”

14 June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 14 June 1941 "The Answer to Defeat is Victory" Mr. Churchill's speech on Tuesday, dispelled the thundercloud that settled...

Editorial – Russia – Rash Rupture

28 June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 28 June 1941 Russia - Rash Rupture It is perhaps too early yet to hope that the war has now...

Wedding – Hopkins & Heal

July 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 26 July 1941 The marriage was solemnised at St Helen’s Church, Thurnscoe, on Saturday, of Miss Hilda Hopkins, younger...

Hickleton Hitch – Company Reply to Men’s Version

July 1941
Mexborough and Swinton Times July 19, 1941 Hickleton Hitch Company Reply to Men’s Version On Sunday members of the Hickleton Main branch of the Yorkshire Miners' Association...