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Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List

September 1943
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

28 October 1944
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

22 January 1944
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

8 January 1944
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”

September 1943
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

1 January 1944
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

8 July 1944
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

12 August 1944
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

September 1943
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

29 January 1944
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

11 September 1943
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

December 1918
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

December 1944
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.

July 1943
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

December 1944
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

November 1944
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

November 1944
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

25 November 1944
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

July 1943
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.

July 1943
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

17 July 1943
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

July 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

March 1943
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

4 November 1944
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

November 1944
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...