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Editorial – Backs to the Wall

4 July 1942
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 04 July 1942 Backs to the Wall News from the Middle East, more curt and cautious in the hour...

Editorial – Taking the Strain

11 July 1942
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 11 July 1942 Taking the Strain In Egypt the war situation has improved during the last seven days. El...

Editorial – A Race With Time

18 July 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 18 July 1942 A Race With Time As the false dawn of optimism recedes still further before the war's present...

Great Houghton Helping Russia

August 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 29 August 1942 Great Houghton Helping Russia Jean Hepworth (13), of Sandhill, Great Houghton, and some her school friends, have...

Leader’s Faith in Miners – Canteen Opened at Dearne Valley Colliery

August 1942
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 01 August 1942 Leader’s Faith in Miners Canteen Opened at Dearne Valley Colliery A group at the opening on Wednesday of...

Marconigrams – August 15th, 1942

August 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 15 August 1942 Marconigrams The income of the Montagu Hospital for the month of July reached a record high level...

Fancy Dress Competition

August 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 29 August 1942 Fancy Dress Competition Headed by Wombwell Home Guard Band, a parade of the various services from Great...

Soldier – Bushby, Maurice – Well and Busy

August 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 22 August 1942 Well and Busy In a group of prisoners of war in Germany which has reached us, is Maurice...

Editorial – Waiting

1 August 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 01 August 1942 Waiting Waiting is a test of nerve and spirit. It is an ordeal which may be selfimposed from...

Editorial – Congress Exposed

8 August 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 08 August 1942 Congress Exposed Amongst other preoccupations the news out of India is unpleasantly inopportune though the latest revelation...