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Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 25 September 1943
Montagu Hospital
The Week’s Casualty List
The following casualties were treated at Mexborough Montagu Hospital during the...
Editorial – Japan’s Turn
South Yorkshire Times, 28 October 1944
Japan’s Turn
Japan, looking on helplessly while the destruction of German militarism proceeds apace, is now gravely threatened in...
Editorial – Pitfalls of Peace
South Yorkshire Times, 22 January 1944
Pitfalls of Peace
An estrangement such as that which has developed between the Soviet and the Polish Governments is the...
Editorial – Russian Recoil
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 08 January 1944
Russian Recoil
It is nearly two and a half years since the German armies crossed the old Soviet-...
Soldier – Bradley E.H. – Promotion With “Eighth”
South Yorkshire Times, September 18th 1943
Promotion With “Eighth"
Mrs. E. Bradley, of 27, Lindale Gardens, Goldthorpe, has had word from her husband, Lieut. E. H....
Editorial – Into the New Year
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 01 January 1944
Into the New Year
As we stand on the threshold of the New Year there is an air...
Editorial – Hammer And Sickle
South Yorkshire Times, 08 July 1944
Hammer And Sickle
Russia, whose war machine the Allies have never ceased to nourish, now sees her great opportunity and...
Editorial – Down But Not Out
South Yorkshire Times, 12 August 1944
Down But Not Out
It would be cheering to think that the United Nations had finally got Germany on the...
New Minister
South Yorkshire Times, September 11th 1943
New Minister
The Rev. and Mrs. John Hulley took up residence at Goldthorpe last Thursday.
Mr. Hulley comes to take the...
Editorial – Pontine Portent
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 29 January 1944
Pontine Portent
After Dieppe and Salerno the successful establishment of the Pontine bridgehead constitutes a bright augury,...
Editorial – Four Years of War
South Yorkshire Times, September 11th 1943
Four Years of War
Looking back across four years of war, as we do to-day, we cannot help but...
Editorial – A Well Kept Watch
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944
A Well Kept Watch
On Sunday the Home Guard formally “stands down.” In the critical days which followed the Dunkirk...
Wedding – South & Oliver
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944
A group taken after the wedding reported in our last issue of Marine T. Oliver (Goldthorpe) and Miss D....
Mr & Mrs Critchley – Golden Wedding.
South Yorkshire Times, July 24, 1943
Golden Wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Critchley, 13,Green Gate Close, Bolton, celebrated their golden wedding on Monday.
Both are natives of...
Airman – Coates, Ronald – Pilot’s D.F.C. – Former Colliery Fitter
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944
Goldthorpe Pilot’s D.F.C.
Former Colliery Fitter
A Goldthorpe airman who has completed 40 operational flights as the pilot of a Stirling...
Roll of Honour Plaque
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944
A picture taken during the unveiling of a Roll of Honour Plaque at Goldthorpe Junior Boys’ School in honour...
Soldier – Ryan, Frank Clifford – Given Discharge
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944
Gnr. F. C. Ryan
Here is a picture of Gnr. Frank Clifford Ryan, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ryan...
Editorial – Hard Pounding
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944
Hard Pounding
General Eisenhower, like Wellington at Waterloo, is seeing who can pound longer. It is a test of many...
Soldier – Hydes, Walter – In Japanese Camp
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 17 July 1943
In Japanese Camp
L/Bdr. Walter Hydes (26), son of Mrs. and the late Mr, W. E. Hydes, 32,...
Soldiers – Johnson Brothers – Brothers Prisoners Together.
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 17 July 1943
Brothers Prisoners Together.
The words, “Ernest and I are quite fit and well. Conditions are very good, and...
Editorial – Well Begun
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 17 July 1943
Well Begun
The Second Front, about which so much has been said and written, particularly since Mr. Churchill...
Marconigrams – July 17th, 1943
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 17 July 1943
Marconigrams
More than 100,000 road passenger transport workers in England and Wales will benefit by an agreement...
Soldier – Johnson T. – Prisoner In Borneo
South Yorkshire Times, March 20, 1943
Prisoner In Borneo
T. Johnson, son of Mr. D. Johnson and the late Mrs. Johnson, of 73 Main Street, Goldthorpe,...
Editorial – America’s Choice
South Yorkshire Times, November 11th 1944
America’s Choice
President Roosevelt’s re-election for a fourth term as President of the United States is not surprising, but in...
Parkin Cup Winner
South Yorkshire Times, November 11th 1944
Parkin Cup Winner
G. Bates a Barnburgh Bevin boy, who, as reported in our last issue, won the Parkin Cup...