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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),...
Cruelty in The Pit
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 07 June 1917
Cruelty in The Pit
Fines of each were imposed at Barnsley yesterday on Herbert Marrow (18) and...
Sailor – Yates, Charles – Leading Seaman dies of Wounds
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 9, 1917
Leading Seaman Yates, D.S.M.
Mrs Yates, of 62 Gypsy Hill, Upper Wirwood, also received official notification of the death...
Soldier – Cox W. – Invalided Home
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 9, 1917
Sapper W Cox
After having served about two years of the Royal Engineers in France, Sapper William Cox, of...
Soldier – Greaves B.N. – Gunner Wounded
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 2, 1917
Gunner B.N. Greaves
(Royal Field Artillery)
Great Houghton - Wounded
Soldier – Roebuck, Herbert – Wounded in Thigh
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 9, 1917
Private Herbert Roebuck
(York and Lancaster)
of Middlecliffe, who enlisted in November 1915, has been wounded in the thigh.
He was...