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Editorial – A Well-Kept Watch

2 December 1944
South Yorkshire Times, 2 December 1944 A Well-Kept Watch On Sunday the Home Guard formally “stands down.” In the critical days which followed the Dunkirk evacuation,...

Editorial – Twice Taught Lesson

18 November 1944
South Yorkshire Times 18 November 1944 Twice Taught Lesson Royal Air Force Lancasters intervened dramatically in the inconclusive Battleships versus Bombs debate this week. The sinking...

Soldier – Bladen, Alfred – Gunner’s Death

October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 2nd 1945 Gunner's Death News has reached the parents of Gnr. Alfred Bladen (24), of 7. School Street, Great Houghton, that their...

Sailor – Paradine, Lawrence – Sailor’s Verses

October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 2nd 1943 Sailor’s Verses Lawerence Paradine, of Darfield, joined the Navy about twelve months ago and has recently enjoyed a leave at...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List

September 1943
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

28 October 1944
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

22 January 1944
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

8 January 1944
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-...

Editorial – Into the New Year

1 January 1944
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

8 July 1944
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

12 August 1944
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

29 January 1944
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 29 January 1944 Pontine Portent After Dieppe and Salerno  the successful establishment of the Pontine bridgehead constitutes a bright augury,...

Veteran Colliers Show The Way – Dearne Valley Group’s High Output

September 1943
South Yorkshire Times, September 18th 1943 Veteran Colliers Show The Way Dearne Valley Group’s High Output Left to right: F. Turner (60), J. Conyers (63), J. H....

Editorial – Four Years of War

11 September 1943
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

December 1918
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...

Editorial – Hard Pounding

25 November 1944
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...

Soldier – Hargreaves, Horace – With Eighth Army

July 1943
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 17 July 1943 With Eighth Army Sapper Horace Hargreaves (22), son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hargreaves, High Street, Great Houghton,...

Editorial – Well Begun

17 July 1943
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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Soldier – Belby, Harry – Darfielder In Italy

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 23rd 1944 Darfielder In Italy Harry Belby (25) son of Mrs. Belby and the late Mr. Belby, Nanny Marr, is in the...