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Soldier – Haddock, Thomas – Army Poet

July 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 19 July 1941 Thomas Haddock (26), of New Street, Sandhill. Great Houghton, who is attached to the Highland Light...

Editorial – Melee – Titanic Struggle

5 July 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 05 July 1941 Melee - Titanic Struggle The titanic struggle between the Germans and the Russians is now nearly a...

Editorial – Catching a Tartar

12 July 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 12 July 1941 Catching a Tartar Although the situation the Russian front is still obscure, the wistfulness of the German...

Editorial – Blunted Blitzkrieg

19 July 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 19 July 1941 Blunted Blitzkrieg With the fourth week of Hitler’s cynical onslaught on Russia nearly spent the campaign takes...

Editorial – Twilight Phase

26 July 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 26 July 1941 Twilight Phase We appear to have entered a twilight phase of the war. The enemy is quiescent...

Wedding – Camps & Andrews

August 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 09 August 1941 Mr H. R. Andrews (Great Houghton) and Miss J. Camps (Goldthorpe) Mr. Harry Raymond Andrews, son of...

Wedding – Findlay & Coton – Student Nurse & Air Force Officer

August 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 16 August 1941 Many officers of the Royal Air Force were present on Saturday at the marriage at Darfield...

Wedding – Taylor & Skidmore

August 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 02 August 1941 Great interest was displayed in the Little Houghton district on Saturday in the marriage of members...

Wedding – Wood & Lavrack

August 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 09 August 1941 Miss Rita Wood, who is serving with the N.A.A.F.I., youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs H....

Marconigrams – August 16th, 1941

August 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 16 August 1941 Marconigrams Mr. Samuel Elkins, a Jump veteran, has gone back to work at the age of 80....