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Editorial – After Crete
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 07 June 1941
After Crete
For the fourth time the Nazis have thrust us into the sea. Our expulsion...
Editorial – “The Answer to Defeat is Victory”
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 14 June 1941
"The Answer to Defeat is Victory"
Mr. Churchill's speech on Tuesday, dispelled the thundercloud that settled...
Editorial – Russia – Rash Rupture
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 28 June 1941
Russia - Rash Rupture
It is perhaps too early yet to hope that the war has now...
Marconigrams – July 19th, 1941
South Yorkshire Times, July 19, 1941
Marconigrams
Superintendent L. Heeson, of Mexborough Fire Brigade, and Mrs Heeson, celebrated their silver wedding on Monday.
A postcard received by...
Montagu Hospital – This Week’s Casualty List – July 05th 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 05 July 1941
Montagu Hospital
This Week's Casualty List
Treated but not detained:
Thursday
Burton Dancy, 10, Roman Street, Thurnscoe,...
Soldier – Haddock, Thomas – Army Poet
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
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
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
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
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 26 July 1941
Twilight Phase
We appear to have entered a twilight phase of the war. The enemy is quiescent...