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Editorial – Rommel Is On The Run.

7 November 1942
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 07 November 1942 Rommel Is On The Run. The German Afrika Korps and its satellite Italians are streaming westward...

Editorial – A Third Front

14 November 1942
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 14 November 1942 A Third Front The Battle of Egypt has indeed proved the prelude to more momentous developments....

Editorial – The Follow Through

21 November 1942
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 21 November 1942 The Follow Through Hitler, it seems, means to make a bid to save something from the wreck...

Editorial – Ring of Retribution

28 November 1942
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 28 November 1942 Ring of Retribution To say that Hitler's world, created at the cost of so much blood and...

New Order For Miners – Opening of Houghton Main Canteen

December 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 26 December 1942 New Order For Miners Opening of Houghton Main Canteen The idea that Government rehabilitation schemes for the mining industry...

Opening of Houghton Main Canteen

December 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 26 December 1942 New Order For Miners Mr. Tom Smith, M.P., at Opening of Houghton Main Canteen A group photographed at the...

Sailor – Dronfield, Arthur – Convoy Gunner

December 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 26 December 1942 Convoy Gunner Arthur Dronfield, who lived with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Watts, of Church View, Darfield,...

Soldier – Woodward, William – Good News from Egypt

December 1942
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 05 December 1942 Good News from Egypt William Woodward, of Rotherham Road, Great Houghton, is attached to the West Yorkshire...

Editorial – A Lead For The World

5 December 1942
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 05 December 1942 A Lead For The World Not only post-war planning, but the present energy which the British people...

Editorial – Closing In

19 December 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 19 December 1942 Closing In The sudden melting away of what is left of the Afrika Korps from the reputedly formidable...