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Soldier – Seakins, Horace – Houghton Military Medallist
Mexborough and Swinton Times, February 24, 1917
Houghton Military Medallist
Corporal Horace Seakins, Great Houghton
(Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Corporal Horace Seakins, who joined the Queen’s Royal...
Soldiers – Francis Family – Another Family Record
Mexborough and Swinton Times, February 3, 1917
Houghton Soldiers - Another Family Record
Private Fred Francis, son of Mr and Mrs George Henry Francis, of Dearne...
Soldier – Seakins, Hortace – Houghton Hero Killed
Mexborough and Swinton Times, March 3, 1917
Corporal Horace Seakins
Corporal Seakins, who a week or two ago received the Military Medal for bravery has been killed.
He...
Soldier – Leatham, Claude – Killed in Action
Mexborough and Swinton Times, April 28, 1917
Private Claude Leatham
(R.A.M.C.)
son of Mr & Mrs G. Leatham, of Providence Place, Great Houghton, has been killed in...
Soldier – Noble, Edward – Wounded in Foot
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 19, 1917
Sapper Edward Noble
(Royal Engineers)
of School Street, Great Houghton, who enlisted in August 1915, and went to the Front...
Soldier – Shaw, Walter – Trench Fever
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 5, 1917
Lance Corporal Walter Shaw
(York and Lancs)
Great Houghton – Trench Fever
Soldier – Wright, Nicholas – Shrapnel in Arms and Legs
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 19, 1917
Private Nicholas Wright
(York and Lancs)
of Middlecliffe who enlisted in September 1914 is now at the Base Hospital in...
Soldier – Walker, Melbourne – Corporal Wounded
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 19, 1917
Corporal Melbourne Walker
(York and Lancs)
School Street, Great Houghton, who enlisted in May 1915, and after being in training...
Expensive “Short Cut”
Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Friday 29 June 1917
Expensive “Short Cut”
To-day, at Barnsley, twelve colliery workers were summoned for trespassing on the Houghton Main and...
Knocked Down by Corves
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 28 June 1917
At Barnsley, yesterday, an adjourned inquest was held relative to the death of John Edward Crossley (15),...