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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...
Soldier – Welford J. – Wounded and in Hospital
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 2, 1917
Private J Welford
Mr and Mrs J Welford of Little Houghton have heard that their third son, Private John...
Soldier – Greaves R. A. – Wounded by a Bomb
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 2, 1917
Signaller R A Greaves
(York and Lancaster)
of Old Hall Farm, Great Houghton, who enlisted in January 1915, and went...
Breach of the Coal Mines Act.
Sheffield Daily Telegraph July 5, 1917
At the Barnsley West Riding Court yesterday, Tom Westwood, trammer, of Great Houghton pleaded not guilty to a charge...
Houghton Main Colliery Chairman Leaves £250,000
Sheffield Daily Telegraph July 24, 1917
Latest Wills:
Mr Charles Edward Hunter, of Hill Hall, Epping and 30 Old Burlington St, W., Formerly of Selaby, near...
Pony Driver Pulled roof Down
Sheffield Daily Telegraph July 5, 1917
At Barnsley yesterday, Joseph Priestley (17) a Wombwell pony driver, employed at Houghton Main colliery, was stated to have...